POETRY | SELF-REFLECTION and LOVE

Versions of Me

A poem of sweetness, strife, and hindsight

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i roll myself thinly
flour our butcher
block memories
laminating all
my ragged edges
into worthier
versions of me

fold me backward
forward around
an eggwash bend
contort me
to your coarse
salivating lupine
tongue again

smother me in
cool pats of butter
bask in reflective
glow-gleam
golf clap timidly
and “pip-pip” to
my fading sheen

savory doesn’t
triumph in the
pastry game of life
sugar is sweeter
when sprinkled with
strife happenstance
and hindsight

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