Chain of Seasoning

Thyme for roses, Mary,
curry's slurry left the ginger man
Dubliner of stoat
mustard mustelid
mixed with another cephalopod squirt
to irradiate inky pepper.

Salt shredded nutmeg's 
literary intentions in a puff of 
cardamom, cayenned home to
roost on a bed of sage,
uncontainable by pure water or
the flowers of fennel and basil

How the ocean arrived is a matter
of paprikan debate; the red
sea rose hipped until the 
heat burned garlic into 
onion powder mace.