The Mag - 177

Bring on the potatoes.


"I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy.  Other foods rot.  Potatoes want to see." - Bill Callahan, Letters to Emma Bowlcut


"In truth, I owe most of my nourishment during my first years of marriage to potatoes, straight from the garden.  One learns rather quickly, the 1001 ways to prepare potatoes, when they're your main food source."  Karen S.




THE MAG

Tess Kincaid from Magpie Tales, offers this photo below, to inspire our writing this week.

Photo by Agustin Berrocal

 

 

 

 

The Year of the Potato

 

 

Straight away,
behind a mask of mingling
sweat and smoke

 from the burning hearth

of his bounty.

 

To the urgent scrape of his shovel

fused by a balm of bitter tang and harmony

to be

clutched between his fingers. 

 

Such a strange, bedazzling stirring

in still air from earth

to throbbing chest

he grasps his

banqueting haul
with stupendous pleasure. 

 

 

 

 For other Magpie Tales go here

http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2013/07/mag-177.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Look at that moon.  Potato weather for sure."

By Thornton Wilder, Out Town