Apron

Painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter


Apron

for Alice Pullen Hanna, 1914-1970



I sleep burrowed in gingham,
a cabbage roll swallowed

in a mix of stove grease
and her own warm

uncorseted scent,
unspoken balm,

quiet like the still
before a Dog Day storm.

Church hymns spoon
heat in the summer kitchen

and Hoosier light,
savory from the night sun,

shines from the back door
out through the front.



Tess Kincaid
May, 2011


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