I’m thrilled to have three new hybrid pieces in the gorgeous last issue of RUBY: “The Cost of Dragons,” “I Never Made the Toast,” and “Anti-ode to the Egg.”
I have loved this food-focused literary magazine since its conception and am very sad to see the project end. But it is a joy to be part of the final issue along with so many writers whose work I admire. Sincere thanks to April Bradley for all the work and care that went into making RUBY so special.
I’m not quite sure what these little things of mine are. Prose poems? Micro fiction? Memoir? All of the above? What unites them, of course, is the food. Ahhh to write about food! The dragon fruit, the cinnamon toast, the eggs. I really do hate eggs! And it was a pleasure to destroy them in this poem (which is best read on a big screen so no unintentional line breaks appear).
I wrote “I Never Made the Toast” when my kid was graduating high school and my mom was dying of cancer. It’s hard to believe my son is graduating from college in a few weeks, and my mom is now almost two years down that different road.
As you might have guessed, the photograph in this post was the inspiration for “The Cost of Dragons.” I hope you will take a bite from my work and devour the rest of this last delicious issue of RUBY.
