Lunch With Father

[Wjames]

I dreamed I had lunch with my dead father,
he talked of this and that, and everything,
and even when hearing nothing told me something.  Should "hearing" be "saying"? You're describing what your father did in the second line, not you (he said, you heard). I rather like the line though.

After the potato soup sprinkled with salt,
after the warm corn bread muffins with butter, I would change the second "after" to "and", and maybe cut the "the" right after it.
he told me secrets—
how there is warmth under crusted snow;
how someone will always be waiting for me,
even the venders at a farmer’s market,
the ones in straw hats who sell clingstone peaches
with all their promises of flavor; I think you might want to add one more person waiting on you before the final lines. The end seems to come on abruptly.
but especially how the earth bears all things,
even my sadness. I don't like "my" here for some reason. I think it would be better as "our", or even just without "my"

Short and sweet, thanks for sharing.