Melodies of Cakes
Susan Drodge in a review covering several books of poetry by Canadian authors (Canadian Literature 165 (2000)) entices the reader with a quotation from Dream Museum by Liliane Welch. Our appetite is whetted:
She was still young,A choice: be satisfied with this modest morsel or engage in the practice covered by the French verb se gaver — to turn to the source and stuff oneself until full and to relish every moment of the feasting.
in her late twenties
when she put on weight.
Did she simply open
the doors of her mind
to the melodies of cakes?
And so for day 678
21.10.2008
