Poetry Thursday

For Poetry Thursday this week, the emphasis is on food, poems about food, poems as food, whatever. The heat has addled my brain! Aieeee.

This feels a little like a potluck, this idea of everyone sharing food poems. Who will bring the Waldorf jello mold, shrimp aspic or candied yams? Will we have a good mix of food, or all dessert (not a tragedy in my book).

Anyways,

Here's my contribution to the PT table:

Celebratory Pizza

By Julie Zaccone Stiller

At Nine PM

Sun is down for good

Today, Hurrah! our

Inside Temperature

only reached eighty short degrees

No baking, steaming

or true cooking

has occured indoors

for, honestly

weeks now. (salads don't count do they?)

All blamed on the ready and believable excuse

"Too hot to cook."

It is all relative

though, this matter

of temperature

So to celebrate the

fog's welcome

return to our corner

of the sky.

Celebratory Pizza is in order tonight.