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Moving in Memory


Article # : 13545 

Section : THE ARTS
Issue Date : 4 / 1988  1,022 Words
Author : Julia Randall
Julia Randall is a poet living in Maryland. Her latest collection of verse is Moving in Memory.

       Recipes
       
        When, late from France, I introduced
        quiches to the campus, they became so common
        I felt compelled to change my specialty.
        It couldn't be cassoulet; you couldn't get
        the Toulouse sausages. It couldn't be langoustines.
        How often I wish
        Americans could learn to grow crawfish.
       
        Of course I gave my recipes away.
        Last night I gave Esterlee
        the zucchini casserole, and she'll give it to Jessie,
        and so it goes. No keeping a secret. I may revert
        to Maryland chicken and angel cake. The fit survive,
        and the raw materials
        don't change much in a lifetime, but they change:
        there was no tea at Stonehenge. It's hard to think back--
        no beans, no wheat--
        but somehow there was always something to eat.
       
        So much is fixed, but how it's mixed
        with foreign influence, like wars,
        weather, and trade winds, ... (1971 of 5016 Characters)
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