Nina Soifer
In Julia Child's Backyard
Next to a pond of clarified butter,
a rosemary tree bows its buckled limbs,
while underneath it, three coddled eggs
teeter between dandelions and variegated sage.
Wild strawberries stagger along the river
and release their sweetness into the air
as caper-berries waltz drunk with the pickles.
Trumpet mushrooms whistle at oranges
squeezing themselves. Splish splash, the licorice
roots laugh, and the rosemary bows again.
Where shallots furrow deep into the soil,
apricots--glazed and plumped with brandy--
gossip in the sun. The eggs nestle, too sated
to budge. When the rosemary promises
to kiss them, the sage lifts its leaves and sings.
Nina Soifer has won writing awards from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in poetry
and creative nonfiction. Her poems are forthcoming in Alimentum and Mudfish and have been
featured in Sheila Bender's Writing It Real and Calliope, a publication of Women Who Write.
Nina is a freelance food writer who cooked professionally as an off-premise caterer for over
twenty years in addition to owning a gourmet prepared-food shop and bakery. She lives with
her family near the shore in South Jersey where she is currently employed as the food and
beverage director of a private golf club.
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In Julia Child's Backyard
Next to a pond of clarified butter,
a rosemary tree bows its buckled limbs,
while underneath it, three coddled eggs
teeter between dandelions and variegated sage.
Wild strawberries stagger along the river
and release their sweetness into the air
as caper-berries waltz drunk with the pickles.
Trumpet mushrooms whistle at oranges
squeezing themselves. Splish splash, the licorice
roots laugh, and the rosemary bows again.
Where shallots furrow deep into the soil,
apricots--glazed and plumped with brandy--
gossip in the sun. The eggs nestle, too sated
to budge. When the rosemary promises
to kiss them, the sage lifts its leaves and sings.
Nina Soifer has won writing awards from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in poetry
and creative nonfiction. Her poems are forthcoming in Alimentum and Mudfish and have been
featured in Sheila Bender's Writing It Real and Calliope, a publication of Women Who Write.
Nina is a freelance food writer who cooked professionally as an off-premise caterer for over
twenty years in addition to owning a gourmet prepared-food shop and bakery. She lives with
her family near the shore in South Jersey where she is currently employed as the food and
beverage director of a private golf club.
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