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A recipe I stole from a website.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/peach-cobbler-recipe/index.html


On Oct 23, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Liked the seed imagery, Kenneth. Forgive my ignorance, what is a peach cobbler?
> 
> BW
> 
> On 23/10/2012, at 11:19 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe I should write more at 3:35 when I have insomnia…. Thanks, Andrew.
>> 
>> K
>> 
>> On Oct 23, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Like this a lot, Kenneth. The tone of the title, too, works wonderfully in
>>> an ironic tone against the wave of the poem. Great! Andrew
>>> 
>>> On 23 October 2012 17:08, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> PEACH COBBLER
>>>> 
>>>> You met me in a diner on Route 9
>>>> somewhere up the Taconic,
>>>> and I bought you coffee and peach cobbler.
>>>> I lusted after you at once
>>>> and you knew it. Was I that obvious?
>>>> 
>>>> You wiped whipped cream from your mouth
>>>> and of course I saw it differently,
>>>> dismissive gesture, eradication,
>>>> nullity, not cruel rejection
>>>> but unmistakable, despising my seed.
>>>> 
>>>> Nothing would grow, ever--
>>>> only my thoughts of you, in a sad diner
>>>> near a traffic circle where a cop
>>>> came in on break, drank his coffee, ate
>>>> his peach cobbler, and then left.
>>>> 
>>>> When I drove off it was early morning
>>>> and the sunglare was appalling, bouncing
>>>> off the hood and wrapping me in darkness
>>>> at 8 AM on the Taconic State Parkway,
>>>> listening to talk radio and talking to myself.
>>>> 
>>>> KW
>>>> 
>>>> (The Taconic State Parkway runs from just north of New York City and ends
>>>> around Albany, the State Capital. I was picturing a spot about 30 miles
>>>> north of the city line,)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Andrew
>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>> 'Undercover of Lightness'
>>> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>>> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
>>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>>