“Blackberry Clafoutis,” by Beverley Bie Brahic (Poetry ’06)

Two poems by 2006 poetry alum Beverley Bie Brahic were recently featured in Literary Matters. Read an excerpt of “Blackberry Clafoutis” below:

Blackberry Clafoutis

A recipe I downloaded
Flutters on my desktop.
I keep thinking it’s a poem
Posted there

With its luscious title:
Blackberry irresistible surely
Essence of
My north’s high summer

Its punitive guarded
Providence
When one morning
Is just imperceptibly

Cold enough to turn
The gas-burning
Pot-bellied stove on
For an hour

 

Read the rest of this poem here: http://www.literarymatters.org/14-2-blackberry-clafoutis/