The summer language classes are free, but Rabka insists on leaving payments on my desk. Slippery eggplants—aubergines--waddled in a dish towel like purple babies. Ripe tomatoes cradled in a woven bag. Cookies, sweet and wheaty, pregnant with raisins. Moist, glistening farmer’s cheese, twisted like a rune. I try to return the towels and the tidy bags, carefully stitched from recycled nightgowns or a baby’s shirt, a towel from Canadian Tire. “This is a useful bag,” I say. “You should take …
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Pond Poems by John L. Stanizzi
About the Pond Poems The poems are from a one-year-long project called POND. The poems are acrostics. Every day, at different times during the day, I would visit our pond with notebook and camera in hand. I’d jot down some notes, take a picture or two, if a good photo op. presented itself. Then I’d head home and write a four-line acrostic using the letters P-O-N-D. The other caveat, which made the project so interesting and challenging to me, was …
Poetry and Short Prose by Karo Caran, Includes Recipes!
*Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present Karo Caran’s food and family inspired prose and poetry, including a couple of Grandma’s recipes as part of our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* Salt Child of the earth In shades of pink and white — Noble dweller of rocks Of oceans’ endless sighs Guest of the body, Stardust of the ground — Noble dweller in tears Of joy and grief so profound Ever-present force, Course through life with care, …
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