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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