Maricusita-de-Belen: Kika

  Assonance or not, couplet or dactyl, dimeter or stanza ... I was recently inspired ( as recent as last night) by one of my favorite twentieth century poets, Hanna Kahn, to throw some witty wordy nuggets together for my favorite Kika -for all time.     (f/k/a: Maria-cusita-de-belen)   blond and wineglasses and bible; lava summer, soulful and steady. radiant and vintage sharp...

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Coming back...it's Fall.

After drinking a glass of milk and fumbling in the dark for a fleece jacket, I met this day with the same youthful enthusiasm that kept me exhilarated this time of year when I was Abuela Mercedes' little grand daughter.    Churros and Menier chocolate weather has arrived!   Thirty years or more ago, on a morning much like this one, our busy kitchen laboratory would be constantly blazing with Abuela's  ...

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