Volume 31
Fall-Winter
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READ the transcript, visit the 2005 NYFS Field Trip webpages.
As part of the NYFS’s recent Writing
Folklore Conference, Steve Zeitlin led
a writing exercise
based on the
beginning prompt “I am.” Here is one
participant’s submission.
Eating Alone
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I am from fields of manure and wheat,
from cow corn high enough to hide in,
from
creek beds of violets, daffodils
I am from stone springhouses, from
bottles of milk and cream
shuttered, cool in August noons
I am from smokehouses, from
hooks and hatchets, from
blood and feathers
I am from farms with two houses,
the small one for grandfather and
grandmother
when deep-veined hands drop from
tractors, from
cauldrons of corn meal mush
I am from winding staircases and attics,
from
gauzy curtains in summer’s night
breezes
I am from jar after glass jar of tomatoes,
green
beans, peaches, and applesauce, but
I am also from chow-chow, dried corn,
horseradish, scrapple
shoo-fly-pie, schmeerkase, sauerkraut,
souse, and
all those other foods you
won’t eat with me
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—Margaret Yocum
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