The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2005

Roast beef

(from Meat)

A salt

tongue-blanket. Cold,

it might as well be velvet.

Chew. Can’t live

without the teeth,

the knife’s

short warning. Shiver-

salt-sweet, white

horseradish ambush-bite.

Suspend

regret, forget.

Amy Miller