You Use To
drop the turkey
twice on special holidays
glaze the ham
with stubborn certainty
that lime chutney was
just the ticket
Sterno steaks
brought your short lived
grilling career to a
screeching halt
not to be outdone
by the half- cooked goose
with New Year’s champagne
what I wouldn't give
to see you
greasing
the kitchen floor
with poultry again.
Even over a decade later,around different holidays , I still think about my late husband's traditional festive meals in which some mild form of kitchen chaos was almost always involved.Written in 2005 in the years after he died I began to make the holiday meals , and I had my share of mess ups ...none were as memorable as his.