Tony Turner
A Wooden Spoon
Lost in a thicket of spanking-new plastic
it looks overtaken by technology, abandoned
for its dirty skin, germs imagined
in its grain.
An early purchase, it stirred
our marriage into life, pioneered recipes,
scooped successes, beat disasters.
On one edge, its bowl
has curved into a pleasing eccentricity
varnished by a thousand eggs
and oxloads of olive oil, stained
by bubbling caramel, gallons
of Bisto gravy...
Ah, only a booby wouldn’t prize it.
It feels right in the fingers.
It doesn’t scratch the Teflon.
It doesn’t melt or char in the pan.
It just keeps feeding our appetites.
Metal spoons strike sparks
lead to explosions. Wooden spoons
are loving spoons, as this one is.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The