Thursday, June 6, 2013

How does Italian fig cake inspire poetry?

Taste, memorable.  Not overly sweet.  Nutty.  An edge of mystery.  Deliciousness, lingering.  Some poetry is like that.

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  1. ( H. cont.)

    And along with the obvious inferences
    he wondered if his mission was haunting him
    in a way not entirely worthy of a merchant
    perhaps more the path of a poet or a painter

    for inquiry happened to be creating more inquiry
    and yet, how could he stop the quest
    for without the answer to this riddle
    could he return to selling string, wire, paper?

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