A Recipe with Missing Ingredients
I don’t have cream of tartar
and I never zest the lemon,
crossing my fingers that clove
will stand in for cardamom.
Still, I point to the recipe
and tell you I made it—
though I didn’t have
half of what it called for.
Heather Cadenhead's writing is published or forthcoming in Ekstasis by Christianity Today, Autism Speaks, The Rabbit Room, Valley Voices, Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, Reformed Journal, The Clayjar Review, Radix Magazine, and elsewhere. Previously, she was a recipient of the New Plains Review Editorial Prize. Her poem, “Illiterate,” was nominated for Best of the Net. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and their two children.
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