Food and Culture at Raven
Camp French Toast
by Paul S. Piper
Break four eggs into bowl; add several splashes of Carnation
condensed milk.
Add Loon calls, waves splashing the shore
below camp. Add the single
yellow birch leaf fluttering above, a dash
of coarse granitic sand.
Beat until mixed.
Dip bread, Multigrain from Island Bakery,
one slice at a time, into the batter.
Fry in butter
Smother in dark maple syrup from Ontario
Smile at the first bite. Smile
at the sky. The day
awaits you.
Paul S. Piper received an MFA
in creative writing from the University of Montana in 1992. He has four books of poetry published, and co-edited
the books Father Nature (University of Iowa Press) and X Stories: The Personal Side of Fragile X Syndrome
(Flying Trout Press). His recent fiction appears in the anthologies The New Montana Story (Riverbend Press)
and Tribute to Orpheus (Kearney Street Press), as well as various literary journals such as Driftwood,
Amoskeag, Bellingham Review and CutBank. He has two novels searching for a home.
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