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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Book of Desserts

pages for the privileged 

sugared stacks of white

on white, the cane

ground down into paper

lives follow the curve of that glass case

counter, inflection, chocolate cake, 

shelf to the cooling machine, plastic front,

marble floor


petits fours and doberge, apple stack and fritter

layer, layer, layer


You cut into this cake like colonists did Africa,

with joy


the sinking tines of a fork in frosting

the downward drive of a stake in soil

yield pleasure 

I imagine

the lagniappe after need has been negotiated


my mother observed

the refusal of a homemade brownie,

a slant eye at key lime

does nothing to further trust


this is the tyranny of the mille-feuille, 

in exile become Napoleon

subject of history 

and emperor still hungry

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