O My Dears One Learns Something New Every Day

        How painful to admit

                                  so many cakes later

                    that due to sloth

& one’s terror of inadvertent

                                        flour inhalation

                    one has missed

                                                  a trick

         but one is not above

                        confessing one’s peccadilloes.

  One speaks, O my dears, of decades

of denial:

                         all that faff

                                           with the sieve

                                resulting, as it turns out,

                  in a lighter sponge.

    Who knew?

                One will now don

                                 one’s sheepish apron

hold one’s breath,

                   sift as if one’s life depended etc,

            apply heat          

                                & revel in

  this frankly indecent expansion.

             O my dears, how

                                   perfectly

                                                      fat.

Jacqueline Saphra's latest collection is The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions. You can read more of her work on her blog.