Le Creuset knock-offs

The pyrex casserole with the
glass lid was taken reluctantly
across the street to the neighbor
who returned from her travels
and who I know cooks a lot.
The latest loaf disappeared into
the mouths of babes; neighbors,
children, skeptics and others.
I wandered randomly, or so
I pretended (to no one but myself),
into stores that may carry something like
a Le Creuset casserole, in navy blue,
the one I have always wanted,
although my mother’s would do
if she weren’t using it.
Possibly less expensive
options and red would do.
Miraculously, I walked out of
a store that did carry knock-off
Le Creuset casseroles, a red
one in hand and went home
and baked bread to fill the mouths
of neighbors, Belgians, skeptics
and others.