Day 6 of
the NaPoWriMo challenge at www.napowrimo.net.
Prompt: Today’s
prompt veers slightly away from our ekphrastic theme. To get started, pick a
number between one and 10. Now scroll down until you come
to a chart. Find the row with your number. Then, write a poem describing the
taste of the item in Column A, using the words that appear in that row in
Column B and C.
My words: cinnamon
– wheeze – golden
Cinnamon
I light a
candle in my vigil,
watch the
flame wheeze in the air,
wax
trickle into a pool
of silent
memory.
Cinnamon snakes
around me,
serves me a
slice of apple pie,
sugar crystallising
on warm pastry,
crimped
edges tinged golden brown.
I can
taste it on my tongue,
and suddenly
my grandmother is here,
holding
out her wooden spoon
as she
used to do when we were baking,
when I
would tiptoe at the table
covered in
heaps of snow
to dip my
finger in the mixing bowl,
stick it
in my mouth with a grin.
Copyright
Vickie Johnstone, April 24, 2025
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