Recipe

William Keckler
Feb 20, 2024

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Give the sparrows the Guggenheim this year.
Go no warmer than heated stone massage with lobsters.
Play Brahms for the snapping turtles.
Give the rhesus monkey a David Hockney book.

Offer the rattlesnake “date night” with some castanets.
Allow the octopus to stir the pot of jasmine rice.
Help the brown bear make snow angels with her cubs.
Let shot-at catbirds enroll in the witness protection program.

Write the Entwicklungsroman of a dissident ant.
Publish the autobiography of a Bukowski-affecting butterfly.
Rub oils on the feet of the Jesus lizard that walks on water.
Get the judas goat the ample therapy it will need.

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William Keckler
William Keckler

Written by William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.

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