{"id":2181,"date":"2022-11-29T18:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:53:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:53:52","slug":"on-the-death-of-the-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/on-the-death-of-the-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Death of the Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sharon M. Van Sluijs<\/em><br \/>\n<em>School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics<\/em><br \/>\n<em>2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Poem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><em>for my mother<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">I arrive,<br \/>\nand the refrigerator, full,<br \/>\nhums desolately,<br \/>\na low drone,<br \/>\nwhile clustered shallots,<br \/>\nsnared<br \/>\nin their wire basket<br \/>\nand past-perfect<br \/>\nwinesap apples<br \/>\nartfully balanced<br \/>\nin their ceramic<br \/>\nindigo bowl<br \/>\nexhale<br \/>\nwithout audience<br \/>\ntheir subtle<br \/>\nand fragrant<br \/>\ngases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">On the table\u2019s expanse,<br \/>\nlast night\u2019s recipe lies<br \/>\ndetached and meaningless<br \/>\nwithout<br \/>\nthe overdue<br \/>\nmaestro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">I retrieve it<br \/>\nand find its place<br \/>\nin the neat metal box,<br \/>\nextinguish<br \/>\nthe kitchen light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">Outside, night<br \/>\nhas consummated<br \/>\nagain its numinous<br \/>\nperfection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">I stand, as I recall<br \/>\nshe would stand,<br \/>\nfacing the southeast tree line<br \/>\nwhere the faithful moon<br \/>\nrises<br \/>\nin scrupulous variety<br \/>\nand cloud-wrack tracery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">Sometimes she thought,<br \/>\nas I do now,<br \/>\nthe far stars<br \/>\nassume<br \/>\na scattered semblance<br \/>\nof attention,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">and believed herself<br \/>\nnot alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2019 Poem &nbsp; for my mother I arrive, and the refrigerator, full, hums desolately, a low drone, while clustered shallots, snared in their wire basket and past-perfect winesap apples artfully balanced in their ceramic indigo bowl exhale without audience their subtle and&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/on-the-death-of-the-cook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}