Cake Kissed
Cynthia Arrieu-King

Hello sponge, sweet map of my hand. Oven quarters--

that black solitary. Hardly a way to cut through things.

Nothing to do: fondly exist, all brisk pleasures

like a nutmeg fume of mood. Too, part of this good

is disproportionate. A fond, if ironic, dream.

In gold cashmere, five brisk measures, a leisure

at other times the better claim, a quiet map:

how you rub the fat in matters. To sit, a hot

dark hour easier to pass as a fix, a correct shipwreck.


Foam risen. Exactly what I mean when I talk this fond

if ironic dream. We let you bake a little. And renounce

grains & membranes to enter a life of kitchens, office

creatures, the unexpressed. Into the words we can bake

a little "a." A cake is kissed a cake. This good wait is.