Caroline Gerardo's Blog, page 15

N F L Sparrow

National Football League Sparrow Poem
Dave Duerson sat next to me on a plane.A massive hero in a first class seat.Stewardess offers him Cristal Champagne,writing notes in my moleskin, I refrain.
Raise the armrest, as I am bantam freight.He chuckles at the gesture as a giant,brushes the laptop as if dust holds weight.Conversation digs into complaint.
Dave desires to share early historyperhaps book, or memoir of his childhood,not the NFL, the stand-up story,before a brute American manhood.
When NFL ends violence in play,hear stadiums full cheer another day.

Caroline Gerardo ©  copyright 12/20/2017

 \ on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). 
#cardinals #bears 

Calf Devotional Poem

                  Devotional

Calves hide in the orchard, they know better.Thieves hack your bones until ice remains.Scratch like ingrown hairs inside a sweater.True hearts pump love in arteries and veins.
Tell me health is not fixed by a pharma pills.Climate changed already and will once more,Corp oil drilling and mining always spills.Stand up to fake news with an elephant roar.
Springs of fracking leads to flames at the tap.Transformation happens water to wine.Cow bells ring in each Alabama clap.Martyrs curves of meatless scrolling vine.
Though outnumbered, lacking power.Sing long up high upon a bell tower.




Caroline Gerardo copyright 2017

Sugar Cookie Recipe

Brenda Dougherty Gilb's cookie production 2017 above
For PamButter cookies
What you need:
3 cups baking flour3/4 teaspoon baking powder shy just a bit more like a 1/2 teaspoon1/4 teaspoon salt (a pinch) 1 cup unsalted butter, softened let sit in covered butter tray overnight before you start1 cup sugar or half white sugar and half superfine if you have it1 egg, beaten1 tablespoon milkPowdered sugar - a box you will only use a couple tablespoons save and make butter cream icing in colors for decoration1/4 cup salted butter to grease the cooking surface1/4 great real vanillaOven that temperature is reliable. I live off grid and have propane for oven so I go to  my Mom's house who has regular gas oven. I'm not fond of electric ovens for baking. This may not be something you can control. After using a oven for three or four months you get to know how incorrect the temperature gauge is and adjust accordingly...Baking metal tin trays - I don't like the non stick kind. The older the better. They keep memories. I think all things touch each other and this creates our own history. OR perhaps the baking pan triggers me with all the treats I made for my family. Turn some music on. Eat the dough no matter what they say, if your eggs are fresh (If not I have chickens and come on over there's plenty) it's all good.Bottle of dry red wine ( for the chef and helpers)
Sift dry ingredients flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside if humid day- cover in a bowl. 
Place butter and sugar in mixer and beat until creamy and the color of eggshell or goats milk.Mixing well is important Add egg and milk and beat to combine for about a minute or less. You can use two egg whites instead of one large egg. This makes the dough a tiny bit whiter if you want to decorate the cookies as snowflakes. Add the little splash of vanilla. Tell me you aren't using imitation vanilla. IF you don't have real bourbon vanilla skip the ingredient...Turn mixer off scrape off beaters. Go ahead taste. Maybe it needs a pinch, no maybe you need a glass of wine?Slowly add flour with a fork, and beat with hand wire wisk until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Takes about 2 minutes if room temperature is 70 and dry dayDivide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.Dough needs to remain cold to roll properly.Take one ball out of refrigerator.Grease the metal cookie baking sheets with salted butter and put in refirgeratorIf you happen to own the luxury of marble countertop (I no longer do in my little cottage)the process is easier than on wooden board.Sprinkle the board or surface with a snowy layer of powdered sugar (a teaspoon)and take your hand in curve and put a teaspoon in the hand- rub over and on therolling pin held over the board allowing the excess to fall. Roll to an even quarter inch thick.If dough warms put back in refrigerator covered with wax paper and turn house heat down.The dough should be able to shake, slide and skate upon the powdered sugar on the board.Cookie baking sheet (thin metal kind) should be COLD before you move the cut out shapesHeat oven to 375 degrees When oven is ready put cookies into oven and at 4 minutes turn the metal tray - from twelve o'clock to three o'clock - not a whole spin just a little turn in the oven. Don't remove from oven. Do this trick quickly to keep the heat at even temperature. Not a pirouette, just a turn.
I found last year that using my cell phone as a timer was handy. At eight minutes look at the cookies. IF edges are slightly brown they are done. If still white wait one more minute. Total cooking time 8 -9 minutes.Temperature, ovens, moisture and weather are part of getting this down to perfect.Cookies should have room around them. When you put on the sheet they need about an inch and a half on all sides.Cookies done- allow to cool a couple minutes before you move them to the decorating surface.Now you need some helpers. Make a couple bowls of icing. stick salted butterbox powdered sugarteaspoon vanillaA tablespoon or more of whipping cream ( buy the little carton of whole whipping cream)Beat for about 2 minutes - if you want it thinner add more vanilla or cream

For Pam Andersen-Victorio A Cookie Recipe

For PamButter cookies
What you need:
3 cups baking flour3/4 teaspoon baking powder shy just a bit more like a 1/2 teaspoon1/4 teaspoon salt (a pinch) 1 cup unsalted butter, softened let sit in covered butter tray overnight before you start1 cup sugar or half white sugar and half superfine if you have it1 egg, beaten1 tablespoon milkPowdered sugar - a box you will only use a couple tablespoons save and make butter cream icing in colors for decoration1/4 cup salted butter to grease the cooking surface1/4 great real vanillaOven that temperature is reliable. I live off grid and have propane for oven so I go to  my Mom's house who has regular gas oven. I'm not fond of electric ovens for baking. This may not be something you can control. After using a oven for three or four months you get to know how off the temperature gauge is and adjust accordingly...Baking metal tin trays - I don't like the non stick kind. The older the better. It seems they keep memories. I think all things are touching each other and this creates our own history. OR perhaps the baking pan triggers me with all the treats I made for my family. Turn some music on. Eat the dough no matter what they say, if your eggs are fresh (If not I have chickens and come on over there's plenty) it's all good.Bottle of dry red wine ( for the chef and helpers)
Sift dry ingredients flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside if humid day- cover in a bowl. 
Place butter and sugar in mixer and beat until creamy and the color of eggshell or goats milk.Mixing well is important Add egg and milk and beat to combine for about a minute or less. You can use two egg whites instead of one large egg. This makes the dough a tiny bit whiter if you want to decorate the cookies as snowflakes. Add the little splash of vanilla. Tell me you aren't using imitation vanilla. IF you don't have real bourbon vanilla skip the ingredient...Turn mixer off scrape off beaters. Go ahead taste. Maybe it needs a pinch, no maybe you need a glass of wine?Slowly add flour with a fork, and beat with hand wire wisk until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Takes about 2 minutes if room temperature is 70 and dry dayDivide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.Dough needs to remain cold to roll properly.Take one ball out of refrigerator.Grease the metal cookie baking sheets with salted butter and put in refirgeratorIf you happen to own the luxury of marble countertop (I no longer do in my little cottage)the process is easier than on wooden board.Sprinkle the board or surface with a snowy layer of powdered sugar (a teaspoon)and take your hand in curve and put a teaspoon in the hand- rub over and on therolling pin held over the board allowing the excess to fall. Roll to an even quarter inch thick.If dough warms put back in refrigerator covered with wax paper and turn house heat down.The dough should be able to shake, slide and skate upon the powdered sugar on the board.Cookie baking sheet (thin metal kind) should be COLD before you move the cut out shapesHeat oven to 375 degrees When oven is ready put cookies into oven and at 4 minutes turn the metal tray - from twelve o'clock to three o'clock - not a whole spin just a little turn in the oven. Don't remove from oven. Do this trick quickly to keep the heat at even temperature. Not a pirouette, just a turn.
I found last year that using my cell phone as a timer was handy. At eight minutes look at the cookies. IF edges are slightly brown they are done. If still white wait one more minute. Total cooking time 8 -9 minutes.Temperature, ovens, moisture and weather are part of getting this down to perfect.Cookies should have room around them. When you put on the sheet they need about an inch and a half on all sides.Cookies done- allow to cool a couple minutes before you move them to the decorating surface.Now you need some helpers. Make a couple bowls of icing. stick salted butterbox powdered sugarteaspoon vanillaA tablespoon or more of whipping cream ( buy the little carton of whole whipping cream)Beat for about 2 minutes - if you want it thinner add more vanilla or cream

New York Times Nazi Interview

NYT Interview with Nazi horseAre Youableach steedchalky Arabian Royal Lipizzaner Russian Kabardinpasty aristocrat ivory thoroughbredintelligent eyes milky swan necksballerina blue bearings black bred out mulesOlympic dressage championsghastly abled racehorses 
You recall when Alchimist was murdered by soldiers when the stallion refused to load onto a truck?

You recall when Heather D. Heyer was murdered by a alabaster man who wore a gastly hoody?

You recall when the Ku Klux Klan commits murders in the name of "we are better, pure light."

You recall bloodless pallid tiki torches recruiting children?

You recall blaming antifa for olive garden swastikas while you chant?

"Sautéing minced garlic with chili flakes and wait for his [sic]    gospel of white nationalism to boil."



I love ancient  tarpans.Brown duns with a black stripe,  thick necks but lightening fast. 
Unlike domestic pasty horses, their coats lighten in winter, ermine and arctic creatures, naturally blending in with the snowy - white landscape.
Pure Navajo white.












copyright  ©  November 26, 2017 Caroline Gerardo 

NYT Nazi Interview

NYT Interview with Nazi horseYou:ableach steedchalky Arabian Royal Lipizzaner Russian Kabardinpasty aristocrats ivory thoroughbredsintelligent eyes, milky swan necksballerina bearings black bred outOlympic dressage championsghastly abled racehorses 
You recall when Alchimist was murdered by marauding  soldiers when the stallion refused to load onto a truck?

You recall when Heather D. Heyer. was murdered by a alabaster man who liked to wear a white hood?

You recall when the Ku Klux Klan commit murders in the name of "we are better, pure light."

You recall bloodless pallid tiki torches recruit children.

You recall antifa as if another group is to blame for
olive gardens swastikas while you chant.

"Sautéing minced garlic with chili flakes and waiting for his    gospel of white nationalism boils."



I recall ancient  tarpans
duns with a black stripe down the back  large thick necks, and lightening fast. 
unlike domestic pasty horses, their coats lighten in winter, ermine and arctic creatures, naturally blending in with the snowy - white landscape.












copyright  ©  November 26, 2017 Caroline Gerardo 

Ponies Poem

Scrub the Kerr jar of canned tomato, basil  sunshine sauce from heirloom varieties— Cherokee ChocolateAnna Russian, Emerald GiantKelloggs BreakfastAnd Mortgage Lifterthe seedling M C Boylecreated, paid his houseoff in full with the spell. 
Save the water offire hydrant carriedby Phil yes fill er upwith clean city— drips not the ecolifrom opal mining and old timers whoburied trash cars, whole rusted roofs, creosote railroad ties,and shit contaminates,into the meadow well.
Sing to the horsesimported from Icelandrare breed of steppe ponydance the O circus— oh no, too cruel to writefeed  pets  non- GMO  organic yeast not like breadfresh cut alfalfa still greenomega 3 for inflammationchia and sunflower seeds, blush rose hips, red clover,and dandelion leaves. In the barn they dwell.
See the Kerr jar washed by waterfall turn  kaleidoscopefor it's treasure— boiled water for teaheld gooseberry jam,expressed milk for babies, and a tadpole or turtle.Bleached by the moon,protected copper firefliesblows a crack in my hand.Blood swirls a carmel spell.



Ponies Poem
Happy Thanksgiving









Caroline Gerardo Copyright November 23, 2017 all rights reserved
images from Iceland trip

Judge Me

 judge mewith iridescent wings waterproof furwebbed paddles wild clawswhistle laughwise memoryjudge mewho are youweighty manwith excusestojudge me

Caroline Gerardo poem November 20, 2017 © copyright

Ranch Life Sonnet

ranch lifecowgirl pokes sepia fire under Wolf Moonevergreen scrub land dulls coyotes croonsave ash it's useful for compost and soapup at dawn another mouse in the trapno corrupt cop plants cocaine in a packsmoking winchester rifle has my backanimal  hierarchies, strong is fairmen destroy the last acres of free airranch lifebleach the barn to kill rust carrying mitesin mourning solar dulls without the lights save hard earned money government will taxkill all thieving evil with a broad axe


copyright November 18 2017  Caroline Gerardo

Ranch Life

ranch lifecowgirl pokes sepia fire under Wolf Moonevergreen scrub land dulls coyotes croonsave ash it's useful for compost and soapup at 5 to find another mouse in the trapno corrupt cop plants cocaine in a packa smoking winchester rifle has my backanimals develop hierarchies, it's fairmen destroy the last acres of free airranch lifebleach the barn to kill the mitesin morning solar dulls the lights save money government will taxkill all thieving evil with an axe


copyright November 18 2017  Caroline Gerardo