Sunday, November 24, 2024

the big brown Idaho potato

what are
these things? these small
multicolored
potatoes,
no bigger
than large pebbles
in a stream.
who made these 
exotic things?
as a kid
i remember
one potato.
a fat brown lumpy
thing
bought in meshed bags
of twenty
pounds
that my mother
boiled
then mashed
and added butter
and milk to.
gravy was a luxury,
but how quickly
we ate them down.

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