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1 <br /> Pam Baggett <br /> 8800 Wilkerson Road <br /> Cedar Grove NC 27231 <br /> 919-537-2164 <br /> nightair@mindspring.com <br /> Hunger <br /> For years she saw the moon <br /> as a dish of mashed potatoes, <br /> clouds as the cream she scooped <br /> from steaming milk. When geese <br /> honked across a clear October sky, <br /> she saw the slide of fatted birds <br /> across his carving board. <br /> Those years flew faster <br /> than a flock of sixty geese. <br /> Her egg timer hasn't dropped <br /> a grain of sand in the two years <br /> since he died. Yet she can't <br /> remember how to make <br /> her famous airy cakes. <br /> Asked the recipe for butter frosting <br /> she shakes her head, muttering <br /> about stars. She's forgotten <br /> everything except the moon, <br /> which she peels and peels, <br /> hoping he will grow hungry <br /> and come home. <br /> "Hunger" originally appeared in The Sow's Ear, Vol. XXII, No. 4 (Winter 2013). It was <br /> included in the Barefoot Muse Press anthology Forgetting Home: Poems About <br /> Alzheimer's and will appear in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII:North <br /> Carolina in late 2014. <br />