Peter Groby 30 October 2018

         
                       

                       (Peter Groby, 1981)


Gone, oblivious
To dank smell, waste pipe
Gush, swept off
Paper stock,
     -Blocked out, curious
     -To blot up, absorb
     -The hunger
     -With bone-in;
Honed in on shoreline
Picnic, jellied tongue
Infused with
Sweet, sour,
     -Salt tingled nostrils,
     -Charred smoke updraft bit,
     -Adding a
     -Dry heat quip;
Turkey, kosher brined,
Maple drizzled hits
Fruitwood chips
Of smoker,
     -Partakers noshed bird,
     -Complexion pallor
     -Crisped, bored through
     -Liquor clear;
Lobster marinade
On butterflied tails
Sea changed by
Waves of flame,
     -Blue and red, jacquard
     -Weave, inverted skiff,
     -Bark-in-chic
     -Wrap-around;
Grilled filet mignon
Rounds, mushroom, red wine,
Minced garlic
Reduction,
     -(Earlobe, vestibule,
     -Earlobe); (Earlobe, chin,
     -Earlobe); (Chin,
     -Vestibule);
Rib comestibles'
Dry rub fingering
Webbed bones and
Cartilage,
     -Forest interval:
     -Floor; understory;
     -Childhood loss
     -Foreshortened;
McIntosh apples
Peeled, cored, chopped, water,
Cinnamon,
Sugar: sauce,
     -Puttered along blue
     -Canal, dropped anchor
     -To walk the
     -Pristine sands;
Diced, cooked, potatoes,
Bacon, red onions;
Vinegar,
Sugar, oil,
     -Rigorous toil melds

     -Pantry basics through
     -Sensory
     -Baptism;
Flour, water, yeast,
Salt, honey, oil; sec,
Blanc, delved, roiled,
Scraped from bowl,
     -Borne on page, colored
     -Markers tag behind
     -Figuring
     -It all out;
Leaven relieved prone
Favoring basalt
Beige, putto
In deft hands,
     -Socket perceived bones
     -Spooled perforations,
     -Scoring real
     -With pared off;
Punched down to prayer rug,
Allah met rising
From prostrate
Confinement,
     -Glanced resolve conveyed
     -Delineations,
     -The substance
     -Justified,
Proved, provocation
From fungus dissolved
Fostered at
Gut level,
     -Whites crescent, the yolks
     -Wobble, specks absorb-
     -Tarred, feathered-
     -Impressions;
Fully baked bread tapped
Hollow, crust dark brown,
Top without
Depressions,
     -Duly provisioned,
     -Potsticker cheeks burst
     -Sentience, smirk,
     -Sauciness;
Mouthful reticent
With butter slathered
Waiter's crumbs
On guest check,
     -'You're hot. Call me.' Tip
     -Piled on to impress,
     -A bathroom's
     -Inked cartoon;
Jotted in balloon
After his butt had
Been groped while
Serving food,
     -Leveraged him nude-
     -The ass, the cheek, the
     -Revolving
     -Pepper mill;
The twist of fate to
Shakespeare's calling, or
Chef's, prep cook's,
Caterer's,
     -Pool depth laborer
     -Rubbed epidermis
     -Of bather
     -With suntan;
Stove, oven, walk-in,
Confinement stymied
Equity
Investors,
     -Cosmetologist,
     -Applied permanent,
     -Chalked up to
     -Passing hive;
Firmament apprised
By forkfuls meted
Out, paired with
Wine tastings,
     -Twombly worm castings
     -Wigged out color field
     -That Rothko,
     -Figured out;
Gristle pig cruller
Coughed up frog legs, a
Skeletal
Hunger pang,
     -Keratin, mottled,
     -Beard, unlined sleeve rolled
     -Inside out,
     -Gangly grunge;
Spinning top rattles
Pot's steel grey armor,
Pressuring
Green, yellow,
     -Underpinning sketch
     -Impulsively took
     -Crayon swiped
     -Red, yellow.

31 October 2018