!DOCTYPE html> html> head lang=”en-US”> title>Excerpt From The “Gertrude Stein” Collaborative Series by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé /title> /div> h1 class=”pageTitle”>Excerpt From The “Gertrude Stein” Collaborative Series/h1> div class=”entry-content clearfix”> h2 class=”author”>by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé /h2> div id=”content”> p>butter in a jam jar ajar like a door knob still shiny maple over butter over buttermilk waffles brown as burnished gold not so yellow not so buttery an effect buttering up milkman postman both trucks stuck in mud ugly mud on face on arms neck knees legs butcher boots/p> p>but butter is grace is utterance is warm fire mother’s warm hands but for dad in a bunker/p> p>big summer bumper crop of honeycomb and languor like a bath lathering/p> p>ice cream in mouth in open chuckle but take the memory in float down/p> p>but button down the soapy memory she said button down the blue house and luggage walks and good fairground fun because the times are slipping down on knees like the old warring years /p> p>but for the buckeye butterflies over marigold flutter flutter aflutter/p> br> /body> /html>
