Wabi Sabi Recipe

WABI-SABI RECIPE


A burn-used
beaten
wok
of mild steel
left
a long time
unwashed after
rinsing
so it is now rimmed
in rust
making red
silhouettes of the last stir fry
over
the stove's green gas flame
like a meal print
long set
and gone cool by now
and then thrown with the scatter
but unfilled
with half a dozen blue mouldering
slices
of dry curled bread
seeded
with multigrains
that would grow if they had not
been baked
like no restaurant plate
and yet a surprising
catch of
the here and now of the vegetative eye
with its last residues
of lost
domesticity.

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