✨ The Kreutzer Sonata

is perfect for cooking...

The Kreutzer Sonata

The Kreutzer Sonata
is perfect for cooking:
about forty minutes
adagio through presto.
The insistent opening ideal
for mincing garlic and onion.
Forty minutes for risotto
from impulse to finish.

Forty minutes at 425 to oven-roast
potatoes and fish in a cast-iron skillet
(after 20 minutes, slip fish into the pan
with potatoes, and make a green salad).

Forty minutes to start
a good soup on the stove.
Put the soup on to simmer,
and begin the sonata again.

—Donna Hilbert

From Enormous Blue Umbrella, Moon Tide Press, Copyright © 2025. Used by permission of the poet. Photo by Alethia Briones, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.