A beautiful poem graces our butter packages for a limited time. We just love it! And in celebration, we're having a contest. Write a haiku about Cabot Creamery or any of our products and submit it here. Details are below 'Butter Taps' by poet Leslie McGrath
Butter Taps
Too light, too ardent
to lay on the tongue
or take up space
between the teeth's pearly gates,
butter slips into a pale yellow coat,
and begins its inward journey
singing of the field's spiky green urges
singing of the cow's ruminations
under clover sun, under cover of cloud
singing of evening's steamy letdown
singing of the memory of the heat
the farmer's hand has pressed
on the withers of his favorite
before the lights turn low
and the latch scratches goodnight.
Leslie McGrath doesn't churn out poetry for just anyone. The award-winning writer is a Connecticut native, foodie, integrative health counselor and is Cordon Bleu-certified in Tuscan cooking -- in other words, she was a natural choice to wax poetic about Cabot.
Leslie has written quite a lot about food, and works as a holistic health counselor. She won the Pablo Neruda prize in poetry in 2004 and the Philbrick chapbook award in 2007. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, her poems have been published widely throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, Ireland, and India (in translation.)
We are so excited about what she wrote for us! You can read more about Leslie at TheDay.com.
Contest details:
Submit a haiku about Cabot Creamery or any of Cabot's products in the comments to this blog post by 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 27, 2009. The winner will notified by email and the winning entry will be posted on the blog by March 6, 2009. Ship to US and Canada only.
Contest winner (chosen by Cabot) will receive his/her choice of:
Tuscan Hand-Rubbed Cheddar (8 oz)
Horseradish Cheddar (8 oz)
Chili-Lime Hand Rubbed Cheddar (8 oz)
Classic Vermont Sharp (8 oz)
Seriously Sharp (8 oz)
You may submit more than one haiku.
Butter Taps
Too light, too ardent
to lay on the tongue
or take up space
between the teeth's pearly gates,
butter slips into a pale yellow coat,
and begins its inward journey
singing of the field's spiky green urges
singing of the cow's ruminations
under clover sun, under cover of cloud
singing of evening's steamy letdown
singing of the memory of the heat
the farmer's hand has pressed
on the withers of his favorite
before the lights turn low
and the latch scratches goodnight.
Leslie McGrath doesn't churn out poetry for just anyone. The award-winning writer is a Connecticut native, foodie, integrative health counselor and is Cordon Bleu-certified in Tuscan cooking -- in other words, she was a natural choice to wax poetic about Cabot.
Leslie has written quite a lot about food, and works as a holistic health counselor. She won the Pablo Neruda prize in poetry in 2004 and the Philbrick chapbook award in 2007. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, her poems have been published widely throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, Ireland, and India (in translation.)
We are so excited about what she wrote for us! You can read more about Leslie at TheDay.com.
Contest details:
Submit a haiku about Cabot Creamery or any of Cabot's products in the comments to this blog post by 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 27, 2009. The winner will notified by email and the winning entry will be posted on the blog by March 6, 2009. Ship to US and Canada only.
Contest winner (chosen by Cabot) will receive his/her choice of:
Tuscan Hand-Rubbed Cheddar (8 oz)
Horseradish Cheddar (8 oz)
Chili-Lime Hand Rubbed Cheddar (8 oz)
Classic Vermont Sharp (8 oz)
Seriously Sharp (8 oz)
You may submit more than one haiku.
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