the cake

today
you will make a cake.
a layer cake.
a yellow cake with
vanilla
frosting. you will
sprinkle the top
with
multi colored
candy sprinkles.
you will let the cake
cool on
the window sill.
you will ask the kids
to not touch it.
to keep
their fingers out
of the icing.
later you will
cut a slice out
of the cake,
sit by the window
with a glass of milk
and think of your
mother.