The Butcher's Apron

by Wakoski, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781574231465
• ISBN10: 1574231464
• Edition: Limited
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(8)
A California Girl
The Butcher's Apron	17	(3)
Breakfast	20	(3)
The Helm's Bakery Man	23	(2)
Saturday Night	25	(3)
The Lessons of Smoked Fish, Bear Claws & American Barbecue	28	(3)
When Canned Peaches Turn into Maplelight	31	(2)
Un Morceau en Forme de Poire	33	(3)
Amaryllis on Thames	36	(1)
Night Blooming Jasmine	37	(2)
In San Francisco	39	(1)
Making a Sacher Torte	40	(5)
Peaches	45	(1)
Ode to a Lebanese Crock of Olives	46	(3)
My Mother's Milkman	49	(3)
Love to My Electric Handmixer	52	(1)
Perfume	53	(12)
Teacup Feet	65	(4)
The Mirage of Desert and Ocean
The Orange	69	(2)
Image Is Narrative	71	(3)
Braised Leeks & Framboise	74	(2)
Nell's Birthday	76	(3)
Grain	79	(2)
Viennese Coffee	81	(2)
The Fear of Fat Children	83	(3)
Salad Flowers	86	(3)
Eating Flowers	89	(2)
Violets	91	(2)
Pamela's Green Tomato Pie	93	(3)
Whole Sum	96	(2)
Pears	98	(1)
Human History: Its Documents	99	(2)
Orphee	101	(2)
Using Heather's Wooden Spoon	103	(3)
Breakfast at George & Molly Wickes'	106	(2)
George Washington's Autumn	108	(3)
A California Girl Moves to Michigan via New York City
The Coffee Drinker	111	(2)
Letter with the Ring of Truth	113	(4)
A Californian Fights Against the Old New England Traditions	117	(2)
Clint's Bottle of 1977 Chateauneuf-du-Pape	119	(1)
Eggs	120	(2)
The Pumpkin Pie	122	(6)
Apricot Poem	128	(2)
What Would Tennessee Williams Have Said	130	(4)
Sue's Diet	134	(2)
Gabriella's Influence on Our Vision of Plato's Cave	136	(2)
Lunch with Miriam & Toby	138	(1)
For Clint in East Lansing While I Am Sitting on the Adriatic Coast	139	(2)
Robert Waxes the Car	141	(2)
Orchids at Oldsmobile	143	(3)
Having Replaced Love with Food & Drink	146	(1)
The Dark Procession Reviewed	147	(3)
Opening the Sunrise	150	(3)
On the Banks of l'Eau de Vie
When Breakfast Is Brought by the Morning Star	153	(2)
Our Lady of the Chanterelles	155	(2)
Mole at Chloe's	157	(2)
The Tango Lesson	159	(5)
Costa Rican Coffee	164	(1)
Creme Brulee	165	(1)
Roses & Grapes	166	(2)
Eating Grapes with the Algebraist	168	(2)
Robert's Spaghetti Sauce	170	(2)
Scalding the Pot	172	(1)
A Short Fable of Endurance and Pity	173	(3)
Diet Moons	176	(1)
Parkin	177	(3)
Sally Plum	180	(2)
Eating a Plum on the Terrace	182	(2)
After Edward Hopper's Marbletop Table: A Sestina for Anne Waldman	184	(2)
The Dangerous Hermit	186	(2)
Light Poem for the Lion Painter Who Bakes Scones in Michigan	188	(2)
Sestina to the Common Glass of Beer: I Do Not Drink Beer	190	(5)
Greed, Part 14: The Greed for Purity
Preface to Greed, Part 14 / The Night Rides ...	195	(6)
Gloves of Fire	201	(4)
The Midas Chocolate	205	(4)
Finger Ears	209	(4)
Medea's Summer Eyes	213	(4)
Robert's Yellow Tomatoes	215	(2)
Goddess Gold	217	(5)
Raven or Serpent	222	(4)
Nighthawk	226	(5)
Polishing Light	231	(4)
Meeting the Ice Queen	235	(4)
Desert Carp	239	(5)
Honoring the Discovery of Zero	244	(4)
Morning's Scarf of Gold	248	(4)
The Morning of the Enchantress	252