Once upon a time, there was a cake that was not just a cake
It was the cocoa powder, dark and bitter earth
that once was seed, fruit, promise
It was the butter, golden fat, almost alive
melting under touch, like fear or desire
It was the sugar, sweet and cruel
dissolving into itself
like memories that refuse to be remembered

The eggs are cracked, fragile shells of worlds
and from them f...

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This music,

it makes me want to fall from the water

float in the sky,

stare at those lips

and kiss those green eyes,

drink from the clouds

and jump on the pond

to feel the stars

and gaze at the stones,

the rythms , the notes

melt my mind

ignite my visible voice

I'm not here nor there

maybe inside a void

floating on the blues

maybe its a d...

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Jam-jar mobile homes

For tiddlers as a kid,

I speculated in vain

Whither went the lid

Sweet student summer

Molten and strawberry

Castor candy foundry

Damson, grape, cherry

Blanched fruit in drums

Pectin sugar and colour,

Without which your jam

Would look much duller

Buff overalls crisply caked

Treacly crystallised hair,

Boss boilers wielding...

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