You’ve met my brother?
then you know why we call him
The Creature.

 However,
The Creature Table
was inspired by Chef Michael Cordúa,
a central American-born Texan
who irreverently interbreeds ingredients indigenous to The New World,
with the grand cuisine of the Old World
USA style: a disruptive procreation
to engender a new ‘delicious.’ 

When Michael asked us to jam,
we introduced a pre-Columbian Inca sculpture
to graffiti from Rio;
at our studio they flirted deep into the night,
in the basement their lovechild was birthed from North Woods maple,

 Morphing: 
a course youth emerging, hot, recycled metal from the sand,
polished with rough rouge,
rubbed with elixirs,
then bathed in flames to
deepen his complexion,
waxed…

 I didn’t realize
until we set him in place
that my brother’s impish grin
was spread across his face…
 

Thank yous: Iz Mozer for animation, Chloe Mozer for poetry, Eliza for photography
….Jeff and Karen for everything…