Casserole
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Before we put him in the ground, they camearmed with the hot foiled coffins of comfort,green bean and cream of mushroom, tuna,ziti and meatloaf, broccoli cheddar.They bubbled on the counter. Then they flattened.We had the oven and the microwaveto keep them quick, so that they went from fridgeand sallow slackened cold then plate then mouth.We buttered rolls already slick with butterthen dredged them through such slickened macaronis.We slashed through minor acres of romaineand thought about the backhoe tearing turf.It never was the same as that first daywatching steam rise from the disposable trays. [End Page 263]
PAUL BONE is the author of Nostalgia for Sacrifice (David Robert Books) and has published poems in The Birmingham Review, 32 Poems, The Hopkins Review, The Southern Poetry Review, storySouth, and other journals. He is coeditor of Measure Press.
