Salad Days
by
Michael Dylan Welch, Billie Dee, Naia, Oleg Kagan, Ash Baldon, and Deborah P
Kolodji
Written 21 February 2010, at the La Grande Orange Café (an historic train depot) in Pasadena, California. First published in Prune Juice #24, Spring 2018. page 104. fancy restaurant— the house salad served on a single lettuce leaf Michael hearts of romaine baby’s first kick Billie panzanella for two the waiter’s serenade slightly off-key Naia fruit salad finished I drink its juice Oleg Balsamic, no oil tart and sweet the way I like it Ash he picks through spinach for the candied walnuts Deborah |