Tuesday, May 27, 2014

What To Do When Choosing A Poem For Dessert

sponge cake golden poem with cream in the middle-
should you be raspberry? or only on the outside?
sprinkled with coconut?

who could decide between

your eclair possibilities: boston creme?
a flourish of apricot

glaced dream? gone teeter-totter,

Alice, tea-tray:
a compote of cranberries-
or only at Christmas tide?

choose everything

said the little girl in red velvet
(decisively, for her size)
bright cherries embroidered
on her pockets

stuffed with them.

mary angela douglas 27 may 2014

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