Poem-A-Day: Company by Karen Leona Anderson

March 25, 2014 Company by Karen Leona Anderson     After The I Hate to Cook Cookbook (1961)     How scattered I am: post-spouse, with company coming; in Florida in my earthquake gown, in my eelskin slingbacks   and electric mink stole.  I tried to make puff paste with sweating hands; butter   in the KitchenAid, covered in Everglaze; apocalyptic looking and no one to stall.   Now egret feathers and alligators and gas are gone; polar fur coats are all vintage   or bottle jobs and the corn is crawling even in the Bracken and the Glades. But I'm up and dressed, at least; I make   of this doctored lambskin a dish of myself: big hair, lippy, a little bit lush, maybe even horny. I'm going   to breathe in and replate the take-out again, shake cocktails. I'm going to spread swampy,   an idea, a mangrove of the air.     Copyright © 2014 by Karen Leona Anderson. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "An earthquake gown was designed to keep one warm during the London earthquakes of 1750. What better to wear to one's first solo dinner party in Florida, post-1950s, post-divorce, post-climate change, post-cooking, post-eating, post-everything?"   --Karen Leona Anderson Most Recent Book by Anderson     Punish honey (Carolina Wren Press, 2009)            Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Karen Leona Anderson is the author of Punish honey (Carolina Wren Press, 2009). She is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland.  Related Poems In Praise of Their Divorce by Tony Hoagland This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield  Chaos Is the New Calm by Wyn Cooper  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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