Jerry Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 This was in my daily poetry mail. It resonated with me because I tend to admire girls with red hair. And I like barbecue ribs. Full rack or half rack. We eat it with greasy fingers. Half-Rack at the Rendezvouz by William Notter She had a truck, red hair, and freckled knees and took me all the way to Memphis after work for barbecue. We moaned and grunted over plates of ribs and sweet iced tea, even in a room of strangers, gnawing the hickory char, the slow smoked meat peeling off the bones, and finally the bones. We slurped grease and dry-rub spice from our fingers, then finished with blackberry cobbler that stained her lips and tongue. All the trees were throwing fireworks of blossom, the air was thick with pollen and the brand-new smell of leaves. We drove back roads in the watermelon dusk, then tangled around each other, delirious as honeybees working wisteria. I could blame it all on cinnamon hair, or the sap rising, the overflow of spring, but it was those ribs that started everything. "Half-Rack at the Rendezvouz" by William Notter, from Holding Everything Down. ? Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. Reprinted with permission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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