
Miz Quickly’s Day Two: All About Heat
I.
I Remember Rain That Felt Like Silk
I’ll be an old nag, obdurate, and
still sucking on a Werther’s Original
by the time temperatures soar like
what Attenborough’s always saying,
and I reckon the wind will blow
eight-beats to a measure with your
hair-blowing cyclonic in your face,
with brown-burnt grass torched
off the ground. That sort of heat is
muscle-loosening, and you’ll be
always tilting forward, ’cause that’s
what you do just before you faint.
But I doubt I’ll see it. I’ll be an old
nag, still sucking on a Werther’s.

II.
Bits of Bread (for Stream of Consciousness Saturday)
The oven’s hot, rippling heat through
the grills and grates. Takes half of
Sunday to get it up to smoking speed,
and a bit of last week’s pork roast fat’s
rising through my nose like intoxicating
incense. This afternoon, baked a loaf
of pumpernickel rye, and a sourdough,
that takes nearly 2 hours, and then
I used up the oven’s residual heat
for a Yorkshire pudding that took off
rising like an echo. If I had the dialect,
this pudding would feel right at home.
For Miz Quickly’s Day Two Image prompt, and the second piece is for #SOCS Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
31 responses to “For Miz Quickly’s Day Two: All About Heat”
👍Brilliant. Put the pudding in the post, and address it to Hobbo! 😂
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I think you address it first, and then put it in the post. Trust me, I’m the daughter of a postman… Glad that it looks proper though!!
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🤣
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🤣 It looks well nice!
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❤️
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🙂
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I need to go have breakfast 🙂
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Enjoy! and thanks for the SOCS prompt.
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Oh, Misky, what can I say?
I skipped the SoCS today as I’m kinda punked out after doin the Miz Quickly thing (I always struggle, trying to remember how to do audio — not that I do it often, or well, but it wore me out anyway.)
Enough about me.
BOTH of your works totally blew me away. I hadn’t heard of Werther’s Originals in ages, so thanks! That piece is friggin HOT!!! (Side note: I went to grade school w/ the (great-?)grand-daughter of the founder of Werther’s Originals.)
And that SoCS piece is equally awesome. I drooled, reading it. Can you send me leftovers?
Have a great weekend, Sister.
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Thank you, Ron! So glad that you liked them both. I’m afraid there’s nothing left of Yorkshire pud. We ate it with a few Cumberland sausages and black pepper gravy. The rye and sourdough are still cooling – no cutting them until they’re completely cool. I’m off to read yours now!!
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Wonderful poetry, and the Yorkshire Pudding looks fantastic! Please send me one too 😀
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Thanks, Ingrid! 😂 Unfortunately, the Yorkshire pudding is all gobbled-up.
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😢
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Oh dear… 😚
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you like your sweeties!
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I don’t smoke; very rarely drink; I have a weakness for sweets. And Wotsits. 🤣😇
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I had some Wotsits about a month ago – first time in years. My weakness was always wine gums but I need to be careful now.
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Mr M (also diabetic) shares your weakness. I buy sugar-free ones on Amazon for him. Holland and Barrett also have them sometimes. He likes these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZL1MBGS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_YWNZ91FYDHSR7QCRJR7Y
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I went the other route – I eat full-sugar treats, but can only have a few grammes of them.
It’s weird though, the link between a sweet tooth and diabetes. I’m not sure it just goes one way. I think there is an element, at least, of being diabetic, so craving sweeter things.
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There might be some truth in that.
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I like Werthers. The pud looks fabulous. We may have Fall here some day soon.
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(I can’t get the combination of accounts and computers to let go of Miz Q for comments without making it a pain to sign back in. She needs to get her own darned computer.)
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b.
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What if you put the WP app on your iPhone, logged in as Miz Quickly, as just used that?
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That pud is savoury, just like a Dutch Baby but with no sugar. It’s howling outside. Trees are nearly bare. Depressing.
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Loved them all.
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Thank you!
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Just fabulous! I particularly love the first one probably because I don’t have strong associations with Yorkshire Pudding. I really do love the descriptions.
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Thanks, Wormsie. ❤️ I was thinking of you today, hoping you’re feeling fairly okay.
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So far, so good, thanks! ❤
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Thank you. I’ll sleep easier tonight knowing that.
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