Ode to Sugar

I like to drink you
carbonated and caffeinated
screw-topped or freshly brewed

I like you mixed
with cacao, butter and milk
hard or gently heat-kissed

I like you light and moist
flavoring the escaping air
spreading and building

I like you warm and dense
covering the full width of my tongue
freshly dipped in cold milk

I like you barely frozen and soft
heaped and overflowing
sweetly melting in the heat of my mouth

I like that dull throbbing ache you leave
in my back teeth
the morning after

September 15, 2007

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