My First Published Poem

From Copperfield’s Literary Magazine, about twenty years ago

Eskimo Pie

Lick.

Sliding along the slippery chocolate

Surface with the moisture drops.

Getting cold, getting nothing.

Crack.

Breaking through the black coating

To the white sweetness beneath.

Taking all the coat off, taking my time.

Drip.

Learning to live with sticky fingers,

Wiping dribbles with my tongue,

Learning to lick, learning not to bite.

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