for John Thorne

There is that rare creature reading
in the kitchen, whose head vowed
to the northern lights to bake bread.

There is not a mystery in bread.
Pleasure is a meatball that
in your brain you want to
eat and assemble.

From pages 162-163 of The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison (Grove Press, 2001).