Saturday, 21 November 2009

Marjoleine de Vos - great chicken recipe I tried out yesterday!



SEAL PLEASE

A seal’s what Mrs Despina would most like to be.
Make leaps, guzzle gunard, applause
at your lissome lard that splendorously
slaps its way up the side, tightly packed frame,
goggle-eyed punchball full of fish, fine foodie.
Inside would sit Mrs Despina, safe in
smooth skin, waterproofly disguised
as a non-angular animal, elegantly attired for
arctic storms and ice floes. Laughingly she lifts
her moustache above water, poses for
binoculars, suns on a sandbar.
If life flings her jubilant into the air
she’ll ricochet back onto seaworthy cushions
her feisty fat makes every landing soft.


For the chicken recipe go to here

For more poems by MdV go to here

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