[OCTOBER 18] [ORIGINAL] FOR MY NEXT TRICK

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Title: For My Next Trick
Day/Theme: October 18, 'that's magic too'
Series: Original
Rating:G

The bloom on old chocolates.

Their thin plastic cases

Shiny, dark, insectile,

Moulded to their several shapes

Punched-out talismen.

 

The fat rising to the air

The sugar crisping inside the casing

Seventy percent content.

 

Old taste capsules

Rose

Violet

Marchpane and

Orange.

Ladies in croquet-photographs

Stiff castles wheeled out for banquets

High minstrels and

Far away lands.

 

Metheglin.

 

Fudge,

The millrace and the fat farmwife,

Toffee

Caramel

Camelot.

Windsor castle on a tin of shortbread.

 

Truffle.

Pig-snouts in the leaf-mould,

Refined in rot,

In straw-coloured ichor,

In chocolate

A distillate

An infusion

In safekeeping.

Enrobed, noble, best behaviour.

 

And, for my next trick.