How To Become A Witch
Brew your stew with mushrooms and moss.
Stir in lavender, and garnish
With dust of pearl.
When cool, spoon into a tortoise shell.
Only consume under a new moon.
On rainy nights, transform words like
Thistle, incense, and lacewing
Into mittens with knitting needles.
Don’t worry if the thumbs aren’t even.
Bury old keys in your flower patch.
Let them rest until they rust
Into fish bones, brittle and ancient.
Unearth in the spring.
Gift them to the field mice.
Pay no attention to the tadpoles in your pond-
Only greet the toads.
Always keep your kettle on-
Always keep these secrets.
