Emily Alexander earned an MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga and received an Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Brooklyn.

Food Poem

by Emily Alexander

After the bread rose and the beef brined and water froze
in fist-size blocks of ice. After eight-minute
eggs and the flaky falling-apart crust of a rhubarb pie.
After olives after almonds after anchovies. After baguettes,
a plate of cheese, every seasonal berry smashed into jam
and dripped down the fronts of shirts. After more please

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