A Poem 1968, and Maple Bars at Raitt Cafeteria, Autumn, 1968: There was a part we played, unknowing, in the structuring of a future in doughnuts.

Maple Bars at Raitt Cafeteria, Autumn, 1968: There was a part we played, unknowing, in the structuring of a future in doughnuts.    (For National Doughnut Day)

315  ADVANCED FOOD SELECTION AND PREPARATION (3 or 5) AWSp Nielsen

Scientific principles and experimental method applied to food preparation and preservation.  Management related to food purchasing, meal preparation, and service.  Prerequisites, 110 and permission, or 216, and organic chemistry.

372  INSTITUTIONAL FOOD PREPARATION

(5) WSp  Ziglar  Laboratory and institution practice in large-quantity food preparation and cost control,   Prerequisite, 315 or permission.

University of Washington Bulletin, 1967-1969 General Catalog Issue 

When you consider the difficulty of point of view you find an understood from plane geometry - if there is one point, there must be another.  It can be important to understand in more than one way – not to judge quickly but to be patient, and to deepen your awareness by gathering detailed information.  At the University of Washington were other Departments.  But this class description in the University of Washington Bulletin has a lot in common with English Department Descriptions in the same volume.

 

The art building had its own coffee shop, a dark room off one hallway in the building.  It looked psychedlic and plastic.  

Perhaps someone there said they were not open, but there was - the Raitt Cafeteria.  The Raitt Cafeteria was geographically related, across a gray and green campus pathway and down a gray stair with smooth dark walls - the Raitt Cafeteria. 

It may have been a myth that the cafeteria was a part of the Home Economics Department.   

But the maple bars there were perfect, decorated with very thick icing, thicker than other maple bars.  The maple bars were no myth. 

Boomer students were structuring the future of doughnuts.  Practice brought this other Department forward.  These were languages - in a way, how to realize it - food was a language from another Department. 

I turned this poem in – it is from “a folder of 29”.  On the written draft, I have noted that St. Christopher is the patron saint of ferry men. 

THE FAWN

 

Christopher protects the migrant workers.

The lady wears a medal.

 

She is related to the man and the other woman.

They are from Po River.

Every summer they come to the island

then work farther east.

They go back home to spend the winter.

 

She goes through the fawn

to get to the morning.

She is telling the story.

It happened years ago.

She pushes a stick into the broken shells

that stretch for miles down in the sand.

 

We started for the vet.

We walked for miles while the haze cleared off.

I watched its wound.

The broken parts of bone.

 

If we had known that it would die...

but it was like we'd known

that it could never die.

We left it behind in the thick grass.