STUFFINS (or STUFF-CAKES)

STUFFINS (or STUFF-CAKES)

A recipe is poetry –
A new song for the mouth –
You follow the ingredients
But leaving some things out

And adding in whatever goods
You have around the house –
Like substituting olive oil
For butter from a cow –

The sugar becomes poultry spice –
Use corn meal for the flour –
With onions, raisins, celery –
And bake them half an hour

In little paper muffin cups –
A serving for each guest –
Instead of stuffing for the bird
Polenta in a nest!

(26 November 2009, Payson, Utah)