Wendy Bishop
FRYBREAD TRILOGY
Depression. Grandmother heats
Crisco, mercury hot
dough drops
winter snow, Father
pulls red wagon of donuts
door to door
* * *
saint's candles
and bright boxes of lard--
Sacramento market
Oaxaca bakery,
pastry-colored dust, traveler
talks to stomach
* * *
honey and flour,
Shiprock spring mud, Navajo tacos
at each truck stop
North Florida Fair,
Seminoles offer us frybread,
humidity rises
Copyright 2000, Wendy Bishop
Wendy Bishop's poems have appeared in Seneca
Review, Hawaii Pacific Review and Chattahoochie
Review and will be appearing as part of a collection
she is co-editing with David Starkey titled In Praise
of Pedagogy: Poems, Flash Fiction and Essays on Composing
(Calendar Islands Press, Spring 2000).
Switched-on Gutenberg/Vol. 4, No. 2
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