"After the Muffin" is a love poem ... that's right, love poem ... which was included in O Taste and See: Food Poems, an anthology co-edited by David Lee Garrison and Terry Hermsen and published by Bottom Dog Press ... and the book was a sellout ... all 5,000 copies!
"After the Muffin" then was discovered by Paul Carey, composer, who is also music director for Vox Caelestis Women's Chorus, a 16-voice professional women's chorus based in Chicago's western suburbs.
He liked "After the Muffin" and set it to music, along with several other food-related poems.
For a sampling of their work:
"After the Muffin" made an appearance in three performances of "The Musical Food Groups" by Chicago a cappella, a vocal ensemble of nine voices, "dedicated to performing innovative concert programs at the highest possible musical standards."
I've heard a recording of their presentation of "After the Muffin," thanks to Matt Greenberg, executive director, who also sings bass with the group ... and it is a superb piece of work ... their rendition of my poem, that is.
For a sample of Chicago a cappella:
Meanwhile, the poem:
AFTER THE MUFFIN
You've something on
your lip, you say,
your finger, gentle
as a kiss, floating
to show me where.
Blueberry! For
we have just shared
a warm muffin
by candlelight.
And now, all these
hours later, I still
feel that touch
like a kiss, still
hear you saying:
You've something
on your lip.
© 2003
(Published in O Taste and See: Food Poems, Bottom Dog Press, 2003)
Today's word: blueberry
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