“Anne Bradstreet’s Kitchen” by Joanie DiMartino

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this must be where Anne
wrote her poems each rhyme bubbled
up like hungry yeast then softened
plied with rye flour
while dry wood in the beehive oven
crackled and flared
scorched the inner brick walls
with alabaster soot
first lines folded into puffs of flour
clouds released as palms pressed
then nimble fingers
pivoted swift quarter-turns
of thick oval bread mixture
repeat     repeat     repeat
the sweat on her skin the sharp pleasant
pain in her arm muscles
from this rhythm of kneading
after first rise
before her quill scratched
on thick paper a day’s worth
of gathered fragments
whiffs of moist dough
ebbed and flowed
like Boston Harbor’s tides

-Joanie DiMartino

212 thoughts on ““Anne Bradstreet’s Kitchen” by Joanie DiMartino”

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