Polly McCann

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.