A Southern Gallimaufry
Combine 1 cup half-and-half or (better) evaporated milk in a bowl with 1/2 cup sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Mix well, pour over 2 gallons (8 cups) of clean fresh snow. Mix very well and serve immediately This recipe makes enough for four or five people. You can re-freeze it, but it becomes very dense. You could probably use less snow and make a milk shake or something. Food coloring might be fun.
Cupped, cradled, ADORED—everything in one stride.
There, where you crease your form, a presence
Coiled, cuffed, MOORED—something of space, a pride
Of lions, three in hand–the rope, eternity, ESSENCE.
How once I BURNED to find, to feel, to hold,
To KNOW carnality—rampant, quaking lust—
But what where who ? No boldness
Came to free, to see the fire was JUST.
Now throbbing, my THROAT I thrust in need
My tongue, seeking musky cream.
PRIAPUS MAGNUS! Bloating with satyr’s seed,
Foam my beard, a faun with me to dream.
So now the What the Who the WHY have fled,
Make MY tongue the temple for your head.
