A Poem on Flavour by Kosta Milkov
This poem was created using one of the experiments in the poetry blog, “Ripping up a Textbook”. Here, Kosta used “The Flavor Thesaurus: Pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook” to write this poem about the flavours the childhood. You can read it below.
When I was a child, all ingredients
Offered flavours from 1001 Nights.
The mulberries which I innocently ate
Became victims of fermentation and aniseed,
Composite elixir forbidden to children!
Ah, childhood –
With no categories, rhyme, or spectrum
Of order,
Only an herbaceous, zesty sequence
On the flavour wheel
Mustardly navigating
The scale of the mind’s palate.
No science has ever come close
To my grandmother’s recipes.
Kosta Milkov is a writer and theologian based in Skopje, Macedonia. He holds a DPhil in Patristics from the University of Oxford and is the author of children’s literature, a poetry collection, and several books on theology and the Early Church.
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