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Potential Titles: Food [Category]
Food - Herbs & Spices [category].
Almond.
Apple.
Applesauce:
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Apricot.
Artichoke:
A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The artichoke watches the train - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"
Asparagus:
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"
Avocado:
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Bacon:
Bring us in no bacon - "Bring Us in Good Ale"
Baklava:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Bean.
Beet:
Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
To starve the soil as beets do - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
Biscuit:
Like biscuits in the wind - Calef Brown "Biscuits in the Wind"
Bread.
Breadcrumb:
Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"
Broth:
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"
Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"
Brown Sugar:
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Bun:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Butter.
Butter Beans:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Butter Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Butterscotch:
Unwrapping golden butterscotches - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Cabbage:
The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
Cake.
Candy.
Candy Bar:
Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Caramel:
The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"
Caramels you pick like berries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha - Cislyn Smith "Hot"
Carrot:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
Celery:
A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"
Cheese:
Familiar as his cheese and ale - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
Full of mirth and cheese - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Chickpea:
Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Chocolate.
Coconut:
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"
Confection:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Corn.
Cotton Candy:
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"
The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"
Cream.
Cress:
In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"
In a carpet of starwort and cress - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Crumbs.
Cucumber:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"
Dessert:
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"
Dough:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Egg/Eggshell.
Eggplant:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Fast Food:
Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"
Filbert:
A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Flour.
Food.
Fruit.
Fruit [Category].
Gelatin:
The gelatinous mass controlling this machine - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Who plays the gelatin piano - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"
Grain/Granary.
Grain [Category].
Grape.
Gumdrop:
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Hard Candy:
mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Hardtack:
Hardtack and dried lime - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"
Hazel-Nut:
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Honey.
Honeycomb.
Hotdogs:
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"
Ice Cream.
Icing:
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Jam:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Jelly:
Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
Leftover.
Legume:
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Lemon.
Lentil:
Learned accounting to sort lentils - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Lettuce:
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"
A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
A career of washing lettuce - John Wieners "Charity Balls"
Loaf.
Manna.
Marmalade:
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Coaxed him in with marmalade - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Marzipan:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"
Meat.
Molasses:
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Absorbing molasses air - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"
Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"
Morsel.
Nopal:
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Nut.
Nutrient:
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Oatmeal:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
Oil.
Okra:
Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
Olive.
Onion.
Onion Soup:
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Orange.
Pancake:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
The promise of pancakes - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"
Pastry:
With pastries and the charge of regret - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Peas.
Pecan:
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
Peppermint Candy:
The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
Pickle:
Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"
Pie:
Craving fresh pie and hot toddies - Elizabeth Bradfield "Why They Went"
A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"
Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"
Pizza:
Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"
Plants [Category].
Plum Cake:
Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"
A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
Pop-Tart:
The Pop-Tart lottery - John F. Buckley "Left Behind"
Popcorn:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Popcorn and the buzz of circus music - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Porridge:
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Potato:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
A dress of potato peels, a gown of garlic cloves - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
Potato Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Preserves:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
Pretzel:
Jostling the salt from a pretzel - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Produce/Product.
Radish:
Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
Rhubarb:
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Roux:
A sigh seasons the roux - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"
Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Have a salad dressed with moonbeams - Tim Pratt "Wolfways"
Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Sausage:
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Scallion:
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Scone:
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Sheet Cake:
fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."
Snap-Bean:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Snow Peas: See Peas.
Souffle:
A souffle of angles - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Soup.
Squash:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Starch:
Having psychoanalysis with a starch, a sugar, or a fat - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
Stew:
To stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
A stew full of murder - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"
Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"
Stewed it with sugar and lemon peel - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Strudel:
Making a strudel of bluebirds - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"
Sub Sandwich:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Sugar.
Summer Squash:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Sunflower Seeds:
Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Sweet Potato:
Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Syrup.
Taffy:
And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The acrobat's taffy of satin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Take-Out:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Tart:
Mixing a magic with your cakes and tarts - John Freeman "The Chair"
Toast.
Tomato.
Turnip:
A subway tunnel through the turnips - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Twinkie:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Vegetable.
Venison:
Fish and venison and badger's fat - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Waffle:
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
Walnut.
Water-Chestnut:
Water-chestnut and lotus for a coat - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Wheat.
Whole Wheat:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Yolk:
Creatures came coated with yolks of myth - Sheikha A. "Nesters"
Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"
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Almond.
Apple.
Applesauce:
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Apricot.
Artichoke:
A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The artichoke watches the train - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"
Asparagus:
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"
Avocado:
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Bacon:
Bring us in no bacon - "Bring Us in Good Ale"
Baklava:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Bean.
Beet:
Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
To starve the soil as beets do - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
Biscuit:
Like biscuits in the wind - Calef Brown "Biscuits in the Wind"
Bread.
Breadcrumb:
Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"
Broth:
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"
Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"
Brown Sugar:
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Bun:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Butter.
Butter Beans:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Butter Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Butterscotch:
Unwrapping golden butterscotches - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Cabbage:
The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
Cake.
Candy.
Candy Bar:
Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Caramel:
The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"
Caramels you pick like berries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha - Cislyn Smith "Hot"
Carrot:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
Celery:
A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"
Cheese:
Familiar as his cheese and ale - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
Full of mirth and cheese - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Chickpea:
Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Chocolate.
Coconut:
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"
Confection:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Corn.
Cotton Candy:
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"
The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"
Cream.
Cress:
In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"
In a carpet of starwort and cress - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Crumbs.
Cucumber:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"
Dessert:
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"
Dough:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Egg/Eggshell.
Eggplant:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Fast Food:
Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"
Filbert:
A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Flour.
Food.
Fruit.
Fruit [Category].
Gelatin:
The gelatinous mass controlling this machine - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Who plays the gelatin piano - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"
Grain/Granary.
Grain [Category].
Grape.
Gumdrop:
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Hard Candy:
mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Hardtack:
Hardtack and dried lime - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"
Hazel-Nut:
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Honey.
Honeycomb.
Hotdogs:
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"
Ice Cream.
Icing:
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Jam:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Jelly:
Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
Leftover.
Legume:
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Lemon.
Lentil:
Learned accounting to sort lentils - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Lettuce:
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"
A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
A career of washing lettuce - John Wieners "Charity Balls"
Loaf.
Manna.
Marmalade:
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Coaxed him in with marmalade - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Marzipan:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"
Meat.
Molasses:
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Absorbing molasses air - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"
Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"
Morsel.
Nopal:
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Nut.
Nutrient:
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Oatmeal:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
Oil.
Okra:
Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
Olive.
Onion.
Onion Soup:
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Orange.
Pancake:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
The promise of pancakes - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"
Pastry:
With pastries and the charge of regret - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Peas.
Pecan:
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
Peppermint Candy:
The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
Pickle:
Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"
Pie:
Craving fresh pie and hot toddies - Elizabeth Bradfield "Why They Went"
A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"
Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"
Pizza:
Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"
Plants [Category].
Plum Cake:
Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"
A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
Pop-Tart:
The Pop-Tart lottery - John F. Buckley "Left Behind"
Popcorn:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Popcorn and the buzz of circus music - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Porridge:
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Potato:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
A dress of potato peels, a gown of garlic cloves - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
Potato Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Preserves:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
Pretzel:
Jostling the salt from a pretzel - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Produce/Product.
Radish:
Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
Rhubarb:
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Roux:
A sigh seasons the roux - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"
Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Have a salad dressed with moonbeams - Tim Pratt "Wolfways"
Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Sausage:
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Scallion:
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Scone:
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Sheet Cake:
fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."
Snap-Bean:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Snow Peas: See Peas.
Souffle:
A souffle of angles - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Soup.
Squash:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Starch:
Having psychoanalysis with a starch, a sugar, or a fat - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
Stew:
To stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
A stew full of murder - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"
Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"
Stewed it with sugar and lemon peel - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Strudel:
Making a strudel of bluebirds - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"
Sub Sandwich:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Sugar.
Summer Squash:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Sunflower Seeds:
Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Sweet Potato:
Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Syrup.
Taffy:
And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The acrobat's taffy of satin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Take-Out:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Tart:
Mixing a magic with your cakes and tarts - John Freeman "The Chair"
Toast.
Tomato.
Turnip:
A subway tunnel through the turnips - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Twinkie:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Vegetable.
Venison:
Fish and venison and badger's fat - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Waffle:
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
Walnut.
Water-Chestnut:
Water-chestnut and lotus for a coat - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Wheat.
Whole Wheat:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Yolk:
Creatures came coated with yolks of myth - Sheikha A. "Nesters"
Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"
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