Recipe for Her
Her sifter’s whirr,
her wooden spoons that drum
her chipped daffodil bowl’s brim.
Wild strawberries jam her colander
powder sugar dusts with snow.
Her cursive recipe on the counter
rustles like a leaf in fall.
Opening the oven door, I test
the golden lattice top for firmness,
draw the cold-water knife out clean.
Turning to place her pie upon a sill,
I step in ghostly footprints
made of flour…
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James Lowell currently writes from a remote, two-mile island in the Atlantic’s stream. Short- and long-listed for Fish’s 2024 poetry prize, his work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Caribbean Writer, English, Fortnight, Fourth River, Gramercy, L.A. Review, Martha’s Vineyard Times, Milk House Review, O Miami, Orchard Poetry Journal, Northern Appalachia Review, Sandy River Review, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, Southwestern American Literature, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and Texas Poetry Review.
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