I knew I loved you when we fought about the origin of zero. When I realized we had both dreamt of telling our children, We invented the zero, you know. Your Mayans used it as a placeholder, I would say; as a nil, a nought, a null and void. While my Indians saw it as [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 24, 2009
Tea and Curry
When love ends there are the questions: Why? How? Perhaps we were only held together by roux and well-steeped tea. Our house seemed to shudder each time we dined, as though even it realized the need for the South in South Asian. One day your hands held ready-made curry boxes from S&B; mine, mustard seeds [...]
December 17, 2009
Let’s stop
and look at us in paint on canvas as they would in the 18th century. Then I will put a dog in the corner to tell the world, in 200 years when our faces are pulled out of the Nantucket Municipal Museum basement, that we were loyal to each other. Maybe I will paint a [...]
December 10, 2009
A MISLIFE
I didn’t get the stuffed panda bear at the Walmart, though I screamed and screamed my lungs off. I didn’t get a compliment from my art teacher on the purple tree I drew. I didn’t get Suzy to go to the prom with me. I didn’t get accepted into community college. I didn’t get the [...]
December 3, 2009
DRIZZLED
over romaine greens. I wonder at the pleasure these pungent fungi bring — gold in a chef’s pan. White truffle oil, my preference, more peppery than the black. Makes sense — being part Sicilian — that the robust Italian whites appeal more than the tamer ebon French ones. All sub rosa root-clinging symbiotic fruiting tubers [...]
