Riffing on a Recipe

The recipe suggests
I use raspberries
but I want a different
flavor note
so decide on
a few chords
of cinnamon.
The lemon
will be off key,
must be deleted.
Do I hear
an overture
of cream cheese?
Improvisation
is my favorite spice.
This explains the
Lemon-Raspberry Coffeecake
sliding into
a Cinnamon-Cream Cheese Cake.
Call me the
jazz cook.

A.H.