Tag Archives: kitchen

Goodbye Cruel World, etc.

Posted on 2024-09-16 by Bartholomew Barker

My place has a gas stove so I think of Sylvia whenever I’m cooking. That’s okay— it’s rare. I worry I’ll bungle my kitchen efforts, die as wages for my attempt to eat healthy. There’s an ironic note on the … Continue reading →

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The Scent of Snow

Posted on 2020-12-25 by Bartholomew Barker

The Scent of Snow Peppermint tingles my morningthe Christmas tree fillsthe air of the living roomwith a forest of needlesthe kitchen is cinnamon warmand gingerbread peopled But what did the myrrh smell like?

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