Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined
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We sat in the fallout
of last year’s gift exchange—
smashed angel centerpiece
taped back together
as good as a rogue bomb
if someone mentioned it.
Our voices dragged
like anchors throu...
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Categories:
doneness, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Sumthang Right With That
...Biff, the oboist
2 cups of pureed shrimp
1 cup of chopped turkey bacon
4 cups of flour (self rising)
1/4 cups of coconut flakes
3/4 cups of green onion
3 T celery seeds (toasted)
2 T sesam...
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Categories:
doneness, appreciation, celebration, food, love,
Form: Ballad
2018, the Good Old Days
...2018, The Good Old Days
Come 2035 and you will hear
Grandma and Grandpa in their tubular porch swing,
“Remember Iphones and lap top computers?
And telephones that vibrated and didn’t ring.
I...
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Categories:
doneness, allusion, future, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Burnt Toast
...At some point you are going to need to impress more than a few friends with some burnt toast. I used to have an old, heavy-gauge chrome-plated toaster with a dial to adjust doneness from 1-5. I took ...
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Categories:
doneness, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
Holiday Delight
...Just for the Holidays so sweet
It is the perfect Christmas treat
To make this special cake so fine
Just use this recipe of mine
Unbleached flour pure and white
About eight ounces is just right...
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Categories:
doneness, food
Form: Rhyme
Saving
...The character is the spirit of enforce
that rises, above all conflicting source.
Through reason, more than bitter after course,
the spirit in its essence, twills remorse.
That anguish in some o...
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Categories:
doneness, native american, visionary, integrity,
Form: Rhyme Royal