NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #25 and #26

In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.

Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle (just for fun. Maybe you'll get a decipherable answer).
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry.

The Dickinsonian oracle ruminates:

Power is a familiar growth -
Not foreign - not to be -
Beside us like a bland Abyss
In every company -
Escape it - there is but a chance -
When consciousness and clay
Lean forward for a final glance
Disprove that, and you may -
(E. Dickinson, 1287)

And writing commandment #25:

What would it take to "disprove" the last look of "consciousness and clay"? That is, how would you rally power over Death? Write a spooky incantatory poem, before Death sharpens her sickle.

And writing commandment #26:

Anyone you know who you'd classify as a bland Abyss? Write a recipe poem listing the ingredients your boring acquaintance needs to have in order to be, well, "crispay."