There’s a recipe, one recipe, the recipe, the only recipe that makes it work.
Ro sift, to stir, to pour, to mix, to crack, to whisk, to rise, to cool, to bake,
to follow the recipe that gives you what you want, what you need,
what you want others to need, and what you need others to want,
a recipe, one recipe, the recipe, that your mother taught you and her mother taught your mother who wants to teach your daughter
but your daughter doesn’t want a step-by-step recipe,
she wants a cookbook, a lookbook, a changing by the second book,
because she’s a twelve year old master chef who reinvented
how to to sift, to stir, to pour, to mix, to crack, to whisk, to rise, to cool, and bake
and she reinvented a recipe, one recipe, the recipe,
that she can teach her mother who can then teach her mother,
because no matter how how the cookie crumbles, or the cake rises, or the biscuits burn or on the scones set,
it’s what you do with a recipe, one recipe, the recipe, that matters,
it matters that you create,
and you make,
and you burn, and start over
and grow,
and next time get it better,
and then get it even better
and then get it best following a recipe.