Kate Polak

Kate Polak is an artist, writer, and teacher. Her work has recently appeared in Plainsongs, McSweeney’s, So to Speak, Coffin Bell, The Closed Eye Open, and elsewhere. She lives in south Florida and aspires to a swamp hermitage.

Serving Suggestion

The serving suggestion portion
of the cracker package is always
so aspirational:

               I can read about
this pretzel thin being made into
the base for a smoked
salmon mousse
or that graham cracker
being the crust for
a “one bite pie”.
Preserved eggplant slices
and a bit of burrata, garnished
with oregano across
a pita crisp,
or warm brie and
marmalade on mini-toast.
Individual seven
layer dip
assembled on
a tortilla chip.

                              All this like
I’m not reading this pantsless, high as fuck
in the kitchen while I eat fistfuls
of these crackers without trimmings
as I diligently study the box.