Sonnets: Let Not My Food Love Be Called Idolatry

Well rounded bagel with
Cream cheese and sable
Green capers and onions (red)
No fish tale nor withered nasturtium bud
Considers this swallow their bed.
Hanatsubomi, hanayu? Yuzu you are, till eaten.
As farro! O farro!
Creeps into lasagna
(Ancient as Zeus’ old bolt)
Kakigori clouds delicately
Fall freezing
And the soft bun’d hot dogs onion-ly emote.
There was a river!
It was the Hudson
But I saw my [...]

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What They Don’t Tell You About Eating Rhinoceros

What they don’t tell you about eating rhinoceros is that before you take your first bite it is vitally important to know the beast! This is true of anything one eats. How can the taste of a thing be known if the sound of the word representing it is unknown, or if the look of [...]

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I Would Not Eat an Axolotl

I would not eat an axolotl
For fear he’d get stuck in my throatl
It wouldn’t matter that I was hungry
He’d make my tummy feel too jumbeley
I’ve decided that
(For me)
Eating axolotl-y
Would be sheerly vacuous glaxoluttony.

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