Saturday, June 16, 2012

Chef salad. How is a Cs akin to provisional poetry?

First, let's define Chef salad. Left to the cook's whim & larder, a Chef salad does not need to include chicken or turkey or roast beef. In fact this morning here's what this cook presented:

baby lettuces
Santa Rosa plums
Persian cucumber
queso blanco
walnuts
shelled pistachios
fresh basil
olive oil
a generous splash of soy
pepper

So to get back on point. A Chef salad is finished when the chef says so. It may not have the look and taste of something academic. Provisional poetry speaks of and to the same language. Necessity.

1 comment:

  1. Continuum 79

    To look at flags and see freedom
    off in the looming future
    is one version of the dream

    what else shall we keep in mind?

    one small and firm orange
    a chance at immortality
    three books, hand made and true

    without a world turning around us
    can we believe in a wonder
    like the ripened moon?

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