Dark chocolate
melting
rolling around
on eager tongue
pleasuring
slowly, slowly
delaying
until a sorrowful swallow
leaves you in limbo
as you deliberate
upon a second truffle --
One taste is not enough!
Age
If forty is the youth of old age and the old age of youth While seventy is the youth of death - What is five to a child with leukemia?
Rosemary Kothe is a retired Buffalo school teacher and the host of several reading series in Western New York.
A sad note: On August 10, 2005, Rosemary Kothe, an active friend to all writers in the Western New York Literary community, passed away after a somewhat lengthy illness. She will be missed. (GER) The Writer's Den Homepage
