![]() Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a Chicago-based poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. Their second chapbook, GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Chen Chen, was part of the 2019-2020 Glass Poetry Press Series. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent work can be found in Moon City Review, Sundog Lit, and Bat City Review, among others. Perchance, read more at samherschelwein.com. How to Cook Your Family
First Six mixing bowls. Fourteen blenders. Who needs this many kitchen aids? An avalanche of appliances from the taut, turquoise shelves. Every rubber spatula you’ve ever dreamed of in the pull-out cabinet next to the stove, packed so tight it’s stuck shut, inaccessible Then Mother makes Challah most weeks, though she often makes extras, for the weeks she wants just to pull one from the freezer. A special Hungarian mixing stick, an overnight dough, hidden recipes she changes just barely over time, they’re impossible to copy Next Clean out grandma’s house. She’s in a senior’s apartment complex now. Not a nursing home, my mother says aloud for herself. Though Grandma wouldn’t know. Her Alzheimer’s, ten years old. I’ve inherited many of the extra kitchen bowls, tools, essentials she kept buying. Don’t forget to mix Yeast for the bread to rise. Raisins on holidays. Gefilte fish from scratch, Brisket recipe from Great Aunt Esther. My grandmother was the best cook in town, in the Jewish community. My mother was the best cook in town, in the Jewish community. Where I grew up. Sprinkle, ever so gently sesame seeds. Sprinkle dirt on the grave. Sprinkles in your eyes, reading a speech goodbye. All good cooking comes in pinches, my mother once said. And she lives that way, too. Pinching out her sadness, the sprinkles hardly visible. Not even coarse. Leave out to cool I was like that. I was a balloon of smiles. They’d shoot out of me with so much force. Pinching back my hair, back my hurt. I’m learning to unfurl. I have a book of recipes, but I don’t need them. This tart, I baked anew. My own strawberries.
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