Category Archives: Food

Masque

Posted on August 11, 2016 by sputterpub

The seasoned salts of ancient history included superstitions in their trade. Encountering the buxom manatee, they chanty-named the animal “mermaid.” Were they by saline spray and fog so blind, or by long voyaging did they forget? They saw the attitude … Continue reading →

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The Carburetor

Posted on July 27, 2016 by sputterpub

My BFF is eccentric. Actually, that’s putting it mildly. She’s high-functioning or they would have locked her up long ago. She describes herself as a 5½ year old adult. Mel maintains that she was forced to become a grownup during … Continue reading →

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Cherry

Posted on July 15, 2016 by sputterpub

Two travelers rest upon a shaded seat ingesting cherries purchased where they grow, that grew too perfect to delay to eat: cascades of flavor so intense they know no other sense. They pause to gaze at one: a globe of … Continue reading →

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Inventory

Posted on June 21, 2016 by sputterpub

I found myself as desolate as straw when I put up the latest poem today. Bereft I felt, as if there were a law proscribing empty pages. I’ve a way to reinvigorate my mouth and hand, so I can fill … Continue reading →

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Two-Thirds of a Box of Matzo

Posted on April 19, 2016 by sputterpub

I cut the sugar out 9 months ago. It wasn’t tough. As if I’d had enough, I stopped the nightly treats. And I can’t crow about my will – I didn’t want sweet stuff. I lost 5 pounds, and then … Continue reading →

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Transmutation

Posted on December 28, 2015 by sputterpub

The mill stone turns and grinds to powder grain the meadows wore a harvest month ago. The cloud condenses drops to send us rain our reservoirs collect and then let flow. There comes a winter-boding Saturday when I combine the … Continue reading →

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Baker

Posted on July 16, 2015 by sputterpub

Within the leaf, the gas and water take their measure of the vigor of the sun to spark a sweet reaction, as they make the basic sustenance for everyone. The chemistry is almost that profound when I mix flour, milled … Continue reading →

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The Alchemist

Posted on October 11, 2013 by sputterpub

Inside each leaf, the gas and water take up power from the vigor of the sun to spark a sweet reaction, as they make the basic sustenance for everyone. The chemistry is almost that profound when I mix flour, milled … Continue reading →

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Breakfast

Posted on August 3, 2013 by sputterpub

The skin is firmly smooth against my touch, the color flushed in orange red or rose. There’s no aroma I detect as such until the flavor’s cut to court my nose. The surface first resists incisive teeth – I’m hungry, … Continue reading →

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Bing

Posted on April 3, 2012 by sputterpub

At one end of the bridge in her backyard, she sits and eats the cherries picked today and quickly rinsed before they made their hard and swollen, tartly sweet-fleshed, sun-plumped way into her mouth. She stops to look at one: … Continue reading →

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