<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486227" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>BAKED OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER by Marjorie Evasco</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We take shelter from the monsoon rains<br>In the warm inflections of dinner<br>Spread out to our liking, a la carte.<br>The sky’s the old cliché: no limits here, <br>Chef’s a master at re-incarnating Lapu-lapu, <br>Or carving a plateful of Manansala’s heart.<br>Will I, I wonder, be so bold as to say<br>With a straight face to the waiter: we are<br>Carnal you see, hungry for the Other.<br>And we’d like everything as raw as we<br>Can get it in this civil place, with its piano, <br>Violin, china, silver, spotless linen.<br>You look at me, intent, your voice encodes<br>Bite-sized pleasures — (Kani Sushi, yes?) <br>Dipped desires — (Oysters Rockefeller, baked?) .<br>My mind scuttles the crab’s tangent<br>To our table, shelled; my tongue<br>sauces at the thought of succulents.<br>Even when the waiter interjects<br>Those Rockefellers are out of season, <br>What a feast live absences meant!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486227" data-title="BAKED OYSTERS ROCKEFELLER by Marjorie Evasco de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="We take shelter from the monsoon rains In the warm inflections of dinner Spread out to our liking, a la carte. The sky’s the old cliché: no limits here, Chef’s a master at re-incarnating Lapu-lapu, Or carving a plateful of Manansala’s hea..."></div> </div> </div>

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