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The image is a colorful, comic book-style illustration of a kitchen scene. In the center, there is a large pressure cooker on a stove, with steam dramatically bursting out from the top, creating a cloud-like explosion effect. The background features green cabinets and a yellow wall with a red polka dot pattern. On the stove, there are two smaller pots with lids. To the right, there is a countertop with a watermelon, a pineapple, a tomato, and a bowl of fruit. The overall style is vibrant and exaggerated, typical of comic book art.

“Cooked Under Pressure” & Other Poems * Joan Mazza

aromatica poetica June 18, 2024

Cooked Under Pressure My mother loved her pressure cooker and gave testimony as if in a commercial: Preserves vitamins, fast cooking! Energy efficient! Sterilizes your food! Even quick-cooking vegetables like spinach, escarole, and broccoli went under the power of pressure, set the valve jiggling as if it might explode at any second. My father arrived as Mother served the meal. He washed his hands and ate in silence, while pressure built in that small dinette. We knew he could blow …

Mont Dore in Auvergne from Wikimedia. A village nestled in the ridge of the forested French mountains.

Two Poems of Scented Place by Frances Daggar Roberts

aromatica poetica April 7, 2020

En Auvergne We stooped to cross the threshold carrying evening on our shoulders and shadow curved the corners and the walls around a muted light. A simmering dark sauce breathed out a lure of something richly meat. We took our seats along a wooden bench quietly close as frogmouths. Knitted into family there we watched the sorcery of our hostess as she sliced the orange folds of mushroom into her steaming brew. A scatter of herbs unlike the ones we …