Cooking is Life

I taught her last year how to
roll out the perfect pie crust,
pour in the precise amount of
batter to make the most delicate crêpes,
which recipe makes the best Christmas
sugar cookies.
This year, we learned how
to wrap corn tamales,
cut and crimp the edges of raviolis.
We cooked up Insanely Simple Chili,
baked one hundred baby cupcakes
and arranged thirty mini cheesecakes.
I finished teaching her how to cook
long ago and she is already planning
menus for warm summer nights
prepared in her own fragrant kitchen,
in her little apartment.
Tonight I say good-bye
until next time, watching the
red blinky lights on her bike
disappear into the darkness.
I have nothing else to teach
her about cooking.
Cooking is alot
like life.