seasonal recipe

I know you think this calls for salt and pepper and butter
and an oven hot as hell
and bleach-flavored dish water, after

but the meal I have in mind is not the meal that can be
consumed – or not in that fashion!
so bring on the changes, colder than you expected 

and the little apples falling everywhere
while the customers bring their fawns
to the buffet out front  - and there is nothing left to step on

a shut door trumps a practice blast from the pre-
winter wind – not on stage yet, for 
the change of seasons is indefinite, but free