Bob Hicok offers the following instructions. Mix sugars, peanut butter, shortening, margarine, and egg. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate at least three hours. Heat oven to 375. Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Place about three inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork dipped in flour. Bake until light brown, nine or ten minutes. Sprinkle with granulated sugar mixed with food coloring. Cool two minutes then remove from cookie sheet.

Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
March 21, 2006:   "Weather Report" " Cats are new to me is why I call them..."
June 21, 2005:  "The Personal Touch" "I have fifteen cloud stamps, it says on the back..."
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" "I introduced John Adams to the Pacific..."
March 8, 2004:  "Building a painting a home" "If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky..."
February 17, 2004:  "Truth About Love" "I apologize for not being Gandhi or Tom..."
February 16, 2004:  "Shopping at the ocean" "Trying to save the bug she killed the bug..."
December 24, 2002:  "By their works" "Who cleaned up the Last Supper?..."
August 29, 2002:  "Sorting the Entanglements" "In my will the basement goes to the spiders...."
July 14, 2002:  "Whither Thou Goest" "Fish can have mad cow disease and I have a problem / with that...."

About Redivider:
Poets in this issue: Dan Wahl, Molly Bendall, Sampson Starkweather, Timothy Liu, Noah Falck, Carol Frith, Christopher Bakken, Matt Rasmussen, Jennifer Dunn, Bob Hicok, Eamonn Wall, Erin Trahan