Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Origin of Zero
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; … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
