Monday again, and who wouldn't want to have a dinner like the one below waiting for you, as dark begins to fall, with its grand conclusion, or "execution," as this young poet describes it. Anuja Acharya was one of the winners in our inaugural Student Poet Laureate Awards this year, sponsored by the North Carolina English Teachers Association. (click on the post title to be taken to the awards post.) She is now a student at NC State. To sip while reading this poem---ummmm----maybe some hot chocolate or chocolate flavored coffee, with whipped cream atop!
Death By Chocolate
Crusty chunks of Rosemary olive bread
With a thick, fruity
Extra virgin olive oil
Flavored with garlic and dried rosemary.
Followed by
Insalata di Palma, the roasted peppers and artichoke hearts
Caressed in the depths of mesculin greens
Laced with robust lemon mustard vinaigrette.
Followed by
An airy, light, tart raspberry sorbet
Sliced with a sharp, peppermint edge
Garnished with a single sprig of fleshy spearmint.
And for the execution
The layers of chocolate
Her layers of Dante's hell
A fine dark experesso chocolate pudding
And a crusty white chocolate crumble cake
Cut with chocolate shavings and milk chocolate
Pudding.
Death by chocolate. And then some.
--Anuja Acharya
1 comment:
I'm drooling!
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