Tiny White Flowers

Tiny White Flowers

Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Morning Baking - Poem by Carolyn Forche

The Morning Baking - Poem by Carolyn Forche
Grandma, come back, I forgot
How much lard for these rolls


Think you can put yourself in the ground
Like plain potatoes and grow in Ohio?
I am damn sick of getting fat like you


Think you can lie through your Slovak?
Tell filthy stories about the blood sausage?
Pish-pish nights at the virgin in Detroit?


I blame your raising me up for my Slav tongue
You beat me up out back, taught me to dance


I'll tell you I don't remember any kind of bread
Your wavy loaves of flesh
Stink through my sleep
The stars on your silk robes


But I'm glad I'll look when I'm old
Like a gypsy dusha hauling milk

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