Hello đ
The prompt for today was a long and tangled one, with a poem from another poet to read/listen to and then a series of instructionsâŠit was all lovely, inviting and full of angles I could get lost in given the time â but unfortunately I have three other inhabitants in the house constantly these days, and I need a lot of quiet to really get lost in anything!
So I took this part out of all the suggested writing-sparkers:
Seek the âunforced flow of wordsâ
And I went with that, after reading (while listening to the poetâs rendition of) James Schuylerâs lengthy poem âHymn to Lifeâ. I thought about a Saturday being a day I didnât have to be home schooling; about interactions that occur while doing other things; about natural repetition in speech and habits, and all the things Schuyler had touched upon. I didnât structure my poem in any particular way, just wrote, but Schuylerâs enjambment seems to have filtered into it?
I donât have to, but the bananas need eating
And it all counts as learning. Too bad your big brother disagrees.
Thereâs so many parts to each recipe with kids;
We lay it all out, but itâs still complex.
Your gorgeous little fingers, all so much bigger than they were;
How can you be 7 already? âYes, thatâs a perfect egg.
Youâre right! No hint of shell before itâs beatenâ.
I wish I could tell you, definitively,
Which parts are needed
For what purpose; keep it all straight in my head.
But youâre getting the gist really well.
Maybe this is what youâll remember
From an ocean of time spent at home
In circumstances with more rules than usual.
Who knew your mumâs germaphobe leanings
Would become the norm so catastrophically?
That sheâd be less chicken-headed
Than people would have thought?
âYes, that stirringâs really goodâ. âI love the smell
Of sugar-and-butter, too. Watch I donât burn you
As it poursâŠâ Round and round we go.
Each spoon, season, speech.
âSugar on the top makes it crunchyâŠ
The crust is always the best partâ
The smell of baking brings reluctant minds into focus,
A bad mood soothed by fruity fumes.
Bear-claw oven mitts are donned
And the ten year old seems less bananas as
A hot oven he braves.
I donât know what magic Youngest performed with the ingredients this time around, but todayâs was a pretty yummy batch of banana bread! I think itâs maybe because the last few loaves that Iâve made have been with bananas Iâd taken out of the freezer? Defrosted bananas are NOT pleasant to look at, and also taste weird, in my opinion.
Youngest also insists on adding chocolate chips to most things đ
Do you like banana bread? Have you been making any in lockdown? Have you a favourite recipe you swear by? Tell me in the comments!
Big hugs, stay safe, and Iâll meet you at Day 26!
Monty X
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