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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2012-08-06 01:32 am

Potential Titles: Food/Drink - Tools for preparing/serving/consuming [Category]

Basin.

Bowl.

Cask:
Spent casks of wind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"

In casks safe from time and tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"

Cauldron.

Churn.

Colander:
More colander than container - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

Corkscrew:
A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

With its buried corkscrew of hate - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

Cup.

Cutlery:
Rattling cutlery with our absence - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

In the cutlery of lightning - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Decanter:
From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Dipper:
The dipper spills its emptiness into my cup - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

Dish.

Dishsoap:
Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

Drinking-Cup:
With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

Flagon.

Flask:
In a flask of fire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"

The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

His flasks and alembics proposing a toast - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Fork.

Goblet.

Grill:
Grilling ink into the blue thaw - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Jar.

Jug:
Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

A jug of cider on the board - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

A leaky jug of lust and worry - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"

Keg:
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Old liqueurs in leather kegs - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

Kettle.

Kitchen.

Knife/Knives.

Mason Jar:
A recurring nightmare about being trapped in a Mason jar - Bruce Boston "Signs You Could Be a Clone"

Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"

Menu:
Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"

A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Mortar.

Mug:
Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"

Napkin:
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"

Oven.

Pan:
Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Pitcher:
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Plate.

Platter:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"

Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Pot.

Pressure-Cooker:
Diamonds in a pressure-cooker sky - Allan Wolf "Uranus: The Planet Behind the Blue-Green Mask"

Punch Bowl:
Gymnosperms by the punch bowl - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"

Recipe.

Salver:
Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen

Samovar:
Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Saucer:
Pottery saucers with wicks and butter - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"

Skillet:
My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

the skillet heat of black asphalt - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"

Spoon.

Stove:
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"

Sizzles a sermon from the stove - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Teacup.

Teapot:
Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"

A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Teaspoon:
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"

Just a teaspoon of you - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Thermos:
Liquid hydrogen filled a thermos - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"

Tin Can.

Vat:
Where poppies heap the marble vats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

Vial.

Whiskey-Flask:
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Wineglass:
bring me wineglasses of miracles - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

Like a wineglass of hatred - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The wineglass of hereafter - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Wine-Press:
The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

Wok:
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."


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