thank you for your most recent installment of “in diane’s kitchen” – the five minute cherry fluff? it doesn’t get quicker than that, does it? i remembered the cool whip & canned cherry pie filling, the mini marshmallows & crushed, drained pineapple pieces, but christine use to add nuts to her cherry fluff (there were always nuts in christine’s kitchen). i can’t remember now though if it was the chopped pecans or walnuts she added and i can’t ask her now either. she’s been gone 10 summers, this summer. so i thought i’d write to ask you diane: which nut would you use in the cherry fluff? do you think it might add a minute or too?
about this poem
this is an epistolary poem or a poem that reads as a letter or in the case of my poem, a postcard. i receive a weekly email or two from a sweet blog called “in diane’s kitchen” . diane was actually the first person whom i don’t know personally to follow my work here at santos scribes. just last week she sent the recipe for 5 minute cherry fluff out to her readers and i was surprised at the emotion it brought up- it instantly transported me back to my childhood, to my adopted mother christine’s kitchen. it felt all at once, sweet and then bittersweet and then almost surprising to realize there may be a subconscious reason or two why i look forward to diane’s recipes & notes each week ..xo
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