Licking up the Landscape

Sweet, sweet, sweet is my time with you,

marshmallow in the curve of a chocolate half-moon,

tutti-frutti in a crystalline bowl,

seaside sundae never end funday -

not day not night, always half-light.

Clink the glass with a silver spoon

hear the high ring sing -

jump into a bed of soft whipped cream,

nibble, with delicacy, Oreo cliffs,

chip away at glacier mints -

our ceramic teeth will not crack.

Peaks of meringue crunch and dissolve,

nectar on our hummingbird tongues.

Float like tropical fish in a pink sky

where the sherbet air tingles.

Warm our toes at the tops of volcanoes,

pour bubbling hot fudge onto frozen vanilla,

delight in amaranthine knickerbocker glory,

here - take my last

melting chocolate heart.