Recipe

by Mary Ann Taylor, on orderliness

Its complexity staggers.

Ingredients sifted from stars

Millenia before, measured

Infinite in containers unseen,

Secured in a science unexplainable,

Dense with nutritious atoms

Selected for their adaptability.

Combined with art, grace,

Beauty beyond mere necessity,

The orderly action of heat melds outside time

Until the Universe ripens, all

Accomplished for a now

We attend until then.