Chocolate
Meditation
When the slanting late
summer light of September days
quiver the knowing
that the long cold is
moving towards us and
Dark Chocolate Velvet
‘with a delicate touch of milk’
seduces with its Fair Trade Bolivian virtue
and promise of solace.
Take time to find a
spot
where sunlight still pools.
Open the wrapper
slowly
undressing brown
warmth.
Liberate a square from
its row
and introduce it to the
flesh of your hand.
Watch it shift
as it awakens to its
true purpose
that has whirled here
from cacao trees in Amazonian jungles
and crossed
continents to
meld its story to
yours.
Let your tongue rise
to meet the creamy darkness.
Let flavours
flood.
Allow moans to sing
the melting.
Merge with equatorial
heat and tropical rains.
Become the scarlet
macaw sliding through your leafy tree tops.
the brown hands that
cut Brazilian sugar cane.
the cow eating vivid
greens whose milk
travelled from its
Andean farm to live in your mouth.
Let solid transmute to
syrup that slides
down your throat,
oozes across membranes
and pours poetry
deep into cells
that fuel your
bittersweet now.
