Birthday Cake Flavored
It doesn’t taste
like birthday cake
unless
it tastes like
wax and smoke,
the drippings and
the drifting,
the wishes soaked
into icing
like an echo.
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I hadn’t thought about it, but it’s true, the smell and taste of wax and smoke makes it a birthday cake. Nice observation of sensory experience and the symbols we attach to it.
How true! And how wonderful for you to put it down in words like this! I love the echo. And I can both taste and smell the wax and smoke. Nicely done!
All birthdays need a little wax and smoke to help us come back to earth after living a full 24 in our own day.