Have you ever tasted
anything
in your life
more delicious
than a slice of Chloe’s
chocolate cake,
so warm and soft,
it calls your name from the table
and when you smell the sweet bitter fudge,
it’s like you smell
for the very first time,
and when you cut—
cut into the blanket of dark brown silk and
open it up with delight,
still smelling -
still wanting -
like a child on Christmas
ready to reveal what’s inside-
you see the perfect layers
stacked neatly with care-
with love-
you wonder if there is
anything in the world that matters more,
more
than this thing,
this cake,
this piece of satisfaction,
this ball of brilliant bliss-
with its perfect texture soft like satin
so sweet and unforgiving
it just melts upon your lips?
anything
in your life
more delicious
than a slice of Chloe’s
chocolate cake,
so warm and soft,
it calls your name from the table
and when you smell the sweet bitter fudge,
it’s like you smell
for the very first time,
and when you cut—
cut into the blanket of dark brown silk and
open it up with delight,
still smelling -
still wanting -
like a child on Christmas
ready to reveal what’s inside-
you see the perfect layers
stacked neatly with care-
with love-
you wonder if there is
anything in the world that matters more,
more
than this thing,
this cake,
this piece of satisfaction,
this ball of brilliant bliss-
with its perfect texture soft like satin
so sweet and unforgiving
it just melts upon your lips?
This is so difficult to do - to take something we already recognize as Desire (or Temptation) and make us understand that desire in new light. And you do it perfectly! I love 'it's like you smell for the very first time,' and 'you wonder if there is anything in the world that matters more, more than this thing, this cake.' A truly wonderful poem!
ReplyDeleteRobin, this is amazing! What a fabulous poem!
ReplyDeletePretty fascinating. You purposefully layered the verses of the poem like the layers of a cake, right? That's pretty cool ...
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