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Nov 2014
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.
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AprilDawn  F/Kentucky USA
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