Winter 07

Never Trust a Recipe From a Poet

They may all offer you
their clever reasoning
how to cook eggs, some new
pinch of a seasoning,
call it their Recipe
for Success, mixing up
half a clichéd spoonful
of kindness, a full cup
of their brilliance. Oh bull…

I say hosts need chaos:
eggs, salt, oregano
convenient for stirring
love, death, oh whatever…
at a moment’s notice.
So let the guests drop by
unannounced. You ready?
Serve it up. Our hands are
dirty from the garden.

__________________________

Christmas Dessert

--from the kitchen of Alice Dickey

1 ½ cups of melted oleo.

2 cups of powdered sugar.

4 eggs beaten smoothly together.

Combine these ingredients. Cook in double boiler until thick. Let cool.

Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans, 2 cups of drained strawberries, 1 lb. of vanilla wafer crumbs, and 1 pint whipped cream (sweeten whipped cream with 1 tsp of vanilla)

Butter an 8x12” cake pan and add 2/3 of the vanilla wafer crumbs to bottom. Pour custard over the crumbs and sprinkle on the chopped pecans. Add strawberries and cover with whipped cream. Add remaining vanilla wafer crumbs on top.

Let stand in refrigerator about 3 hours. Top with strawberry juice.

* top with melted butter and salt for unabashed decadence*


	Christmas Desert (With Warning) By Paul Dickey

	Never Trust a Recipe From a Poet They may all offer you their clever reasoning how to cook eggs, some new pinch of a seasoning, call it their Recipe for Success, mixing up half a clichéd spoonful of kindness, a full cup of their brilliance. Oh bull… I say hosts need chaos: eggs, salt, oregano convenient for stirring love, death, oh whatever… at a moment’s notice. So let the guests drop by unannounced. You ready? Serve it up. Our hands are dirty from the garden. __________________________ Christmas Dessert --from the kitchen of Alice Dickey 1 ½ cups of melted oleo. 2 cups of powdered sugar. 4 eggs beaten smoothly together. Combine these ingredients. Cook in double boiler until thick. Let cool. Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans, 2 cups of drained strawberries, 1 lb. of vanilla wafer crumbs, and 1 pint whipped cream (sweeten whipped cream with 1 tsp of vanilla) Butter an 8x12” cake pan and add 2/3 of the vanilla wafer crumbs to bottom. Pour custard over the crumbs and sprinkle on the chopped pecans. Add strawberries and cover with whipped cream. Add remaining vanilla wafer crumbs on top. Let stand in refrigerator about 3 hours. Top with strawberry juice. * top with melted butter and salt for unabashed decadence*

	Paul Dickey’s poetry has appeared in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, The Concho River Review, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, The Cider Press Review, Swink Online, Rattle, and many other online and print journals. His poetry collection They Say This is How Death Came Into the World was a finalist in the 2005 Red Mountain Review chapbook contest and his Images of Knowing was a finalist in the Comstock Review's 2005 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook contest. Another poetry chapbook What Wisconsin Took was published by The Parallel Press of Madison, Wisconsin in July, 2006. Biographical information and additional notes on previous publishing activity can be found at http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/dickey.htm.