Pancake Conversations
By: Dan’l McILhenny
As a Birthday wish she agreed
To heat the griddle,
To bother with the batch
And to become my personal chef
All for the sake of pancake conversations
Before we get talking here’s my gift
I’ve never made them
I’ve made a goodly share of meals
I’ve never shied away from gally duties ever
This I confess before our pancake conversations
However . . . I’m not here to expound
We gather to discuss flapjacks,
Griddle-cakes, prairie plops
And an assorted array of so—appetizing,
Broadly identifiable names meaning the same morsel
It usually here we stumble in our talk
Other tidbits bubble up golden
Other subjects crepe in,
Other galette gobs gadzukes!
Trying to bombard these pancake conversations
Fortunately, the group steers handily back
And our main course arrives
Landing center plate quite undressed
Grand as any food stuff should craving decoration
The personal touches anointed, pancake conversations begin