Sweet Treat Foodie

By Catherine Jones

I want the caramel taste from a Haagen-Daz

ice cream bar, with a chocolate nutty shell.

To let the caramel linger on my bottom lip

for a long while before licking it off

slowly with my tongue, undressing,

removing the shell piece by piece with my teeth.

Let me see the true beauty of white snow on a stick.

Let me inhale this treat’s cooling air

that shivers my spine, make my teeth chatter

when I bite down on the sugary pure white cream

going slow and steady

I want to let some melt down my throat

to cool my throat while the rest can leave

a white sticky trail out of my mouth

run down the corner of my chin

Let me nibble and suck

on your remains that might be left

on the hard wooden stick.