The season will soon
       be upon us again
of Vacherin Mont d’Or
       the winter cheese
in the round pine box
       sumptuously
unpasteurised
       deliciously baked

Think of the hillsides
       where the cows graze
where the pine trees grow
       and the wooden disks
from the base and the lid
       which I decorate
year after year
       to celebrate the force
of nature and the power
       of the imagination

John Lyons