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[title] => The Old Country
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[bodytext] => Dangerous in an apron a Grandmother stalks a fowl her skin has a boxers sheen. Dust rising, feathers flying cackles echo the sleight of hen hides behind the cock but she grabs her prey with a pincer twist. Boiled plucked feathers thumb flicked quills the kitchen waits we enter as she gathers her uses. I lift a bony drum talon is aligned to eyes till startled dropped as she smacks the enamel flat, shine textured palm print fades cascading edges. She sharpens her knife as a whistling mood crowns grey dark forest above stern ridges, scowl furrows her brow. Metal slicing metal racing to skin raised my neck hairs and signals: goose flesh migrate to crown; as she cuts clean to the birds wish. A twist, a shake and out spilled a rosette of eggs. Half formed ghosts round varying yolks. My knees knock in trembles. She grabs my hand and whoops and twirls me in dance to an old song that she sings and syncopates. I stop her and ask 'Where are the shells?' She says 'Gott has them in His heart!' The jewels of tradition are golden poached offered in a sauce and then devoured. [comments] => 6 [counter] => 150 [topic] => 73 [informant] => yangdantien [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => abstract )
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