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TieasuiG Box
-Vanessa Pham1
search for chocolate chip cookies
in
your old recipe box.
Among
the sea
of magazine clip-outs
and fancy picture cards of Russian rainbow teacakes
and I
glittery fruit slice cookies,
find a picture
of my fourth birthday cake -
clown bedecked
a
with an
M&M party hat,
a collar to
and
a
match
gum-drop nose.
Clown cakes
don't just happen, after
A hand-written
all.
recipe
pokes above the commercial cards.
"Banana Nut Bread" on notebook paper written in your hand. I
spy another
in
your hand,
"Coffee Cake."
You hated coffee. I find more folded notebook papers written by you. I
pull another,
and another, hungrily unfolding them like candy wrappers,
smelling the paper,
consuming your handwriting, savoring the treasures
1
in at least
planning
memory of your
recipes
hadn't tasted
nine years,
to bring
them
to life
agam
with flour and sugar.
I
wish
to
it
were
that easy
do with you.
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