4.2.17

The prompt for Sunday was a "recipe" poem. I did a "place" recipe.

Recipe for FD

Shake railroad ties in a bag

with gypsum dust, then drop

haphazardly on an uneven surface.

Repeat with potholed streets.

Number them, but not in order.

Add round-abouts at awkward junctures.

Pepper with little square houses

and little square bars.

Drop in rogues and cads,

church ladies and writers,

disheveled men to pick up the cans,

by the teaspoonful.

Marinate in Natty Light and rainwater.

Welcome home.