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James Engelhardt: Pierogi (Polish)

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

Simple food, really, the sour shells
folded over filling—a kind of dumpling
to boil and fry with butter and onions

but imagine a boy
coming back to his house
of accented newspapers

after an afternoon watching Judy Garland
turn rosy after landing in Oz
and the smell of popcorn caught in his hair

crimped pierogi and country sausages
slip around on a plate
with blue and red designs

nothing in the house
as bright as Oz
as bright as the dark theater

he’s supposed to pray in Polish
but he’s thinking of yellow—
of light and film

Filed Under: Contributors 83, Issue 83, Poetry, Poetry 83 Tagged With: Contributors 83, James Engelhardt, Poetry, Poetry 83

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