Issue 140

Summer & Fall 2011

Poetry Janet Jennings Poetry Janet Jennings

Conching

Pronounced “konjing” in chocolate manufacturing.

Warm chocolate blends

in a giant vat—a conche,

large paddles slowly turning.

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Poetry Janet Jennings Poetry Janet Jennings

Dancing the Beans

In Trinidad limber women

danced a path of cocoa beans,

do do petit cacao o

hot sun, red-dust. Bare feet

shook loose debris, turned

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