Japan Series

By | 1 February 2013
Wheat gluten sticks with red miso and Fox tail millet

Fox tail millet, one sees the tiny

teeth of the vixen, biting

tiny bones of wheat,

her tail upright in the autumn morning.




Sakomoto Noodle Shop

We stop for a bowl

of noodles, the broth arrives,

slightly peppery, after

talking in circles

tangled like ramen.




Little Murmurry Bakery

The buns hiss slightly in their pans,

loaves mumble in the oven.

Out springs an outspoken Danish;

Oh, sighs the pie, I’m made to be broken.
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Carol Jenkins is an Australian writer and publisher. She lives with her family in Sydney, near Balmoral Beach. Coming to poetry from a career in chemical regulation, her first poem was published in 2004. She has two collections of poetry, Fishing in the Devonian (2008) and Xn, 2013 both from Puncher & Wattmann. Her most recent book and silliest book is Select Episodes from the Mr Farmhand Series, from Puncher & Wattmann, is available in print and as an ebook. In 2016 she was a judge for the Newcastle Poetry Prize and a guest poet at the International Festival de la Poesie in Quebec. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French. In 2007, she launched River Road Press, which has recorded and published 21 audio CDs of Australian poets.

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