Tagged: dessert
rosettes are often
rosettes are often
the life of the party – with a
sweetness that you can
hold onto only by eating
them one after another
.
20221215:1832
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some nights, it will take
some nights, it will take
three hours to get to the
dessert table, at
the corner of the party,
sweating or coagulating
.
20211208:1722
y
when in the midwest,
when in the midwest,
do as the midwesterners do –
strawberry rhubarb
.
20210702:2111
y
in the middle of
in the middle of
chocolate is always more
other chocolates –
the struggle to resist the
comparison simply melts
.
20210521:1646
y
the recipe for
the recipe for
stretching
time always
calls for
one to
two scoops
of ice cream,
there’s really no
substitute for
the rich,
sweetly cool
seconds acquired
.
20160220:1618
y
the future is layered
commitment is a
commitment is a
chocolate bar,
molded to
break, easily
snap, into
mouth-watering
convenience.
who says i have to be
a chocolatier to
design so much
indulgence.
depending on
your melting
point, i’ll
let you savor
the taste
.
20130604:2158
y
you keep the sonnets
you keep the sonnets
in the freezer,
i have seen
them.
it makes sense
to serve them
cold, eventually
fixed, crystalline
lines bonding
so naturally,
wrapped
around the volta,
one nibble
away
from melting
on the tongue
.
20130603:0839
y
morning arrives
morning arrives
pressed –
like the best
ice cream sandwich
ever tasted – warm,
cool, warm,
leaving the fingers
a bit stickier
.
20130427:0727
y
tuesday morning, car
tuesday morning, car
horns are squeezing
headlights into the fog
of that last treasured
moment before the
alarm goes off. in
pairs, each bright
bulb bobs
and grows, like
winter solstice’s
rice balls floating
in sweet,
gingery broth,
beckoning for a
bite that awakens
black sesame,
and finally, all
the remaining
senses
.
20130115:0836
y
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