Recipe for a Big Cat
(and a cake with three ingredients: eggs, coconut and condensed milk)Whisk eggs into some soft-peaked mountains,
winter will become your favourite season,
think of coconut white and brown fur so
you hunt by hiding in shadows against snow.
Mix condensed milk, with the eggs, whisk tall
then stir in shredded coconut which layers like
a thick, rosetted fur which keeps out the cold, go
and play for ten minutes while the mixture rests. Pop
the oven on to warm it up and pour the mix into a
greased cake tin. Get a parent to bake it until the colour
is dried grass on the scree. Which cat have you created?
winter will become your favourite season,
think of coconut white and brown fur so
you hunt by hiding in shadows against snow.
Mix condensed milk, with the eggs, whisk tall
then stir in shredded coconut which layers like
a thick, rosetted fur which keeps out the cold, go
and play for ten minutes while the mixture rests. Pop
the oven on to warm it up and pour the mix into a
greased cake tin. Get a parent to bake it until the colour
is dried grass on the scree. Which cat have you created?
(Check your answer by writing out the last letter of each line.)
This poem is copyright (©) Emma Lee 2026
About the Writer
Emma Lee
Emma’s publications include “The Significance of a Dress” (Arachne, 2020) and "Ghosts in the Desert" (IDP, 2015). She co-edited “Over Land, Over Sea,” (Five Leaves, 2015), reviews for magazines and blogs at emmalee1.wordpress.com.
