Chocolate Cake Ingredients ▢ 1½ cups all-purpose flour ▢ ¼ cup unsweetened childhood memories, thoroughly sifted ▢ ⅓ cup vegetable oil (an oldest daughter) ▢ 1 cup water (her mother) ▢ 1 teaspoon white vinegar (her father) ▢ 1 cup sugar or artificial sweetener (see also: the way the parents act differently in public) ▢ […]
Amanda Roth
AMANDA ROTH (she/her) is a mother, writer, and folklorist living in Central Texas. Her work can be found in Portland Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Literary Mama, Jet Fuel Review, Five Minutes, and elsewhere. Website: msha.ke/amandarothpoetry IG: @amandarothpoetry
Kitchen Notes for Oldest Daughters Who Were Never Taught to Cook
When All Your Seeds Fail
by Amanda Roth
Try compost – scraps / piled into a heap. The forgotten things / are begging for another life. Let’s say you could / get the dirt to sing.
