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Of ***** roasting pans and racks and island fog! *if you love me, then you know poems wright themselves when standing, driving, bus riding, ********** and especially when doing manly battle, ******* ***** dishwashing midst island fog a passing remark goes noticed and summoned to a Friday night feast, roasted fowl, wild rice with golden raisins and mushrooms, English spring peas, was it a Montrachet? for dessert the washing up is obligation mine, a traditional desertion, separation of church and state, her cooking a church  in which I worship, she states eloquently: “Unto Caesaria , Render Her the cleanup” this is hand to hand combat, no dishwasher mechanical can scrub like the human hand, and with body english, water hot, but no gloves employed for this is ***** man’s work, not for sissies, cleaning roasting pans and roasting racks that are at least twenty years burnt and crusted with a blackened finish, residue of other lovers and dinners P.N. (pre-nat) array three kinds of sponges and some human & metallic ***** no one asking which came first, the scrubbing away of life feasting residues, or the poem writing that comes with pre & postscript sleepiness when I say the dark stains and the grease buildup are flavor enhancers, am beknighted with starry stares of “how stupid do you think I am?” and sadly return to the Battle of Agincourt, the one the American lost….* but they do source poems that flavor life 2020
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Jul 17, 2021
Jul 17, 2021 at 11:54 AM UTC
of ***** roasting pans and racks and island fog
Our love was slow-roasting. If we were chicken, it would have fallen off the bone. I can see now, on this night with it's moon as silky as freshly laundered sheets, that all I cared for was small. And that my thinking them small made them all the smaller. There's no one to blame but me. This, I now can see.
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Apr 27, 2018
Apr 27, 2018 at 9:59 PM UTC
Slow-Roasting