Saturdays my father brought out his hoardof forbidden foods from his cousin’s store. Sometimes we had kielbasa with sauerkraut,hot brown mustard, and bottles of Pepsi. One day he brought out farmer’s cheese.Not kielbasa. I hated cheese. Cheese was rubbery, the bright colorof trucks that crowded my brother’s room. The white cube stood on the plate. Alone.It was … [Read more...] about Farmer’s Cheese, 1971, By: Marianne Szlyk
Marianne Szlyk
About Marianne Szlyk
Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. Her poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Verse-Virtual, Poetry X Hunger, Poetry Breakfast, and One Art. Her books Why We Never Visited the Elms, On the Other Side of the Window, and I Dream of Empathy are available from Amazon. She and her husband, the wry writer Ethan Goffman, live near DC with their black cat Tyler.