Celebrating the Absent Yam

Asparagus Butter Celery

Attend to the bread,

Building the heat

You can have plenty.

Dates Endive Figs

Requiring no scales, she measures by instinct,

Why have one spice when

Cumin, cardamon, coriander and chilli.

Gooseberries Herring

Here is heartier: goats’ cheese or salted butter,

Garlic and ginger and garam masala

Notice its softness.

Ice-cream Jellied Eels Kefir

Attend to the toaster,

Quickly, best oatmeal mixed with chopped onion, salt and oil,

Stir up the sauce, throw in the meat.

Lemons Mushrooms Nasturtiums

Stir for a while.

A Barolo uncorked and decanted,

a blessing of sorts.

Oranges Pears Quince

Offer it to its mouth.

Existence

shrouds the kitchen in icing sugar.

Rhubarb Sardines Truffles

Vegetables and rowan jelly at the ready

Waiting to add its richness,

the dressing of salad.

Ugli fruit Vanilla

I’m not cooking but I am going to let it rest,

about your head

the brow of the crust.

Watermelon

Serve up from the pan,

It will rise with a cry,

One hour’s blast is enough.

Xhale

She creates clouds of flour,

Fresh white bread - still soft from the oven

is whole and complete.

Yawn

then red sweetness, the jam

like the basting of meat.

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