Grease Spots
"rocking rolling"
sticky fingers linger
on the table-top
on a rolling-pin
on a cookie cutter girl
too old to drink a mother’s milk
i drink her in
hear
brown sugar
and here
this lick lulls
this kitchen warms
me sleepy
"Guide-Girling"
together we pedaled
door-to-dooring
Mattel-industrious and
selling outside Canadian Tire
Zellers
IGA
outselling Hasbro with cardboard cookies
we kneaded
no Easy-Bake ovens
no Mommy
us badgering
earning
recruiting
making homes
scorching
Brownies
"jellied sorrow"
jigglers are
easy-to-do is too much
water not hot enough
or good like always room
like always not good enough
so they melted in the bathtub
red yellowing orange
greening into red
bluing her eyes
this sad juggler
posted by Christine Marie at 4/07/2006
2 Comments:
these are really good Christine, I'm really starting to get a sense of your voice. Guide-Girling in particular is great, understated but powerful. The last poem doesn't quite work for me, though I can't put my finger on why...
Em XX
The first two are great. I think I prefer the first one. Though I agree with the other poster, the final one is a difficult read.
I'm still very much interested in seeing the final presentation of this project. Were you still planning on constructing it as the recipe book, complete with finger print marks?
-Katherine
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