her cherries
and
apples.
what love there was in her
hands.
blue
veined and long
kneading the dough.
hardly a month would go by
without
a cooling tin
upon a kitchen sill,
and the joy she felt,
was a joy
you tasted as she carved
a slice
and told you to sit. sit boy.
here's milk.
go on, begin.

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