Poem for her 635

Dear Readers,


Recipes in a blue book

You have good penmanship and so you write
The recipes in our recipe books
At times they were just the ones on trips
Other times they are on cards that get added
When we get home and have time to transpose
The grilled things, the picnic we have
The crackers we found at that little shop
The cheeses in the bin at that farm
The plans and wines and things
Long lines in the pages of the cook books
The spare blue book with the recipe title
The grilled snow sandwich made a page and a half
Of lines in your neat hand with a soft drawing
The notes read like a small story
There was even a picture notation to the photos
Some recipes do that, they come with photos
We keep them in another book for that year
Orderly and dense moss and hand photos
With Blue cheese salad photos too
Art house projects of sheets and leaves and you
Blue the books of recipes and notes of us

Happy Birthday Babe,

Charles.