Thursday, 4 October 2012

GINGERBREAD BRUTALIST POEM by Abi Palmer



berlin, 1957
she cut her finger on the sugar window pane   and even when the loaves rose they were unforgiving  breadcrumbs on my fists  anger in the pastry walls   but it was seven floors before we checked the blueprint   not a candy knocker  not a bonbon bell  syrup on the second floor goes uninspected  we get mice  the doors are stale  and fourteen storeys more before the fucker pays us    gretel sighs   I lick her face (frosting on the brow) and tighten up her apron  somewhere in the distance  a witch laughs

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