Grocery List

(don't forget)

By Joe NastaPublished about a year ago • 1 min read

half-gallon milk

OJ with pulp

1 dozen eggs

& Bouillon cubes

bone-in pork chops

Rainier cherries

3 kale bundles

2-ply TP

cottage cheese

heavy cream

fingerlings

& Cosmic Crisps

red handbasket

union pin

his apron

smile

& your receipt (don’t

speak)

Joe Nasta is a foodie and poet vibing in Seattle. He has whispered four books of poetry into the world: I want you to feel ugly, too (2021); agony: love pomes (2022); blur/screenshot memories of platonic lust (2023); and salt-water poems (2024). He is the author of Halve It (2025), a collection of short stories available wherever books are sold. Ze is an associate editor for Elizabeth Ellen's Hobart. He used to work at Bert's Red Apple grocery store in Madison Park, Seattle.

literary editor at large, American Poetry’s Sweetest Troublemaker, reputed champion of the underground, kind friend please make me happy :)

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