“EBT Recipes” by Avra Elliott (fiction, ’15)

A poem with audio by Avra Elliott (fiction, ’15) appears in Tinderbox Poetry Journal:

 

 

 

 

 

 

EBT Recipes

Poverty can be sweet, overripe

plums with the bird bites cut out

or donuts made from two-for-one

 

canned biscuit dough fried in grease

leftover from the Jerusalem artichokes

we plucked from earth like oversized pupae—

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