Polly McCann, writer and illustrator, has an MFA in writing from Hamline University. Her first book of poetry, Tea with Alice, is a collection of generational and autobiographical poems in free verse.
When We Had Little
Polly McCann
When we had little, I learned
how to take flour and water then add:
oil,
to make tortillas in the brown glazed
bowl from my potter's wheel days
when I dizzily formed clay for grades.
egg,
to make spring roll wraps
stuffed with bowling ball cabbage
which never fits in the vegetable drawer.
butter,
to make pie crust on Thanksgiving
from the Cinderella pumpkin
growing accidently in the garden.
soda,
to make angel biscuits
light and whiter than air with the recipe
from the traveling truck show.
milk,
to make white sauce for
seafood pasta casserole without the
seafood.
coriander,
to make manna cakes
out of air and whimsy
when there is nothing else.
sustenance from nothing
blossoms to bread
with only a bowl
I can accomplish anything.
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