Fermentation
Converting carbohydrates into
alcohol,
acids,
yeasts,
bacteria.
It’s truly no surprise to you
that you’ve found your wife
absorbed in
kitchen witchery
of the highest order,
filling our kitchen with
a collection of scavenged vessels
harboring hoards of enzymes behind
soda-lime glass.
A symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts
where i’ve become
my truest form,
the old crone we’ve always known me to be.
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Absolutely wonderful! Humor and witches get me every time.
Love it!
Great story telling and great energy
where i’ve become
my truest form,
the old crone we’ve always known me to be.
Love your ending. I’ve been making kombucha during lock down. Started it from just tea & sugar & water. I didn’t have a mother. I poured out the first two starts & built up a mother. And it worked!