Baking Sheet

They say baking
is precise, a 
science, a measured
equilibrium often
dis-, not to taste. 
Under previous
conditions, the
barometric 
ignorance of the
top of the stove
made the belly
a fell place to
try to grumble
heat. To copy,
line for line, 
a sheet of music,
is art in training,
the scales, scaling
the ladder of 
definite outcome
and regressions
of crispy possibility.