Member Poem

How to Bake a Planet
 
First warm the oven – dust
and prepare a suitable work surface.
Sauté all ingredients in lava, allowing
the mixture to thicken and harden
into a crust of pasta-like sheets.
Use rainwater to make stock,
adding seaweed, kale – boil
and cool repeatedly. Simmer.
Meanwhile, gather fresh greens,
bone the fish, marinate the meat in
juices from sun-ripened fruits, whole grains,
nuts, garlic to taste – pour liquid over
dish until it almost drowns.
Increase heat gradually, stirring continuously.
Flambé the mushrooms!
Throw everything into a sealed container
with generous lashings of crude oil.
Set timer –
bake indefinitely...
(Drink a glass of wine, watch a movie, disaster ones are best).
Remove contents,
add a final pinch of salt –
serve chilled. 
 
 
 (from How to Bake a Planet - Salmon Poetry 2016).
 
Pete Mullineaux – May 2017