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Marilyn Chin: THE FLORAL APRON GRUEL back to the Fat Poetry Book Index THE FLORAL APRON The woman wore a floral apron around her neck, that woman from my mother's village with a sharp cleaver in her hand. She said, What shall we cook tonight Perhaps these six tiny squid lined up so perfectly on the block She wiped her hand on the apron, pierced the blade into the first. There was no ...