Timothy Pilgrim
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Timothy Pilgrim

MARCH/APRIL 2023, OUR 27TH YEAR

 
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By Timothy Pilgrim
 
   
 

Bakery

You in front, I enter, excited,
am drawn first to the cream puffs,
gold, swollen, white filling
spilling out slender slits. I see
pies steaming off to the side,

want to dive in, especially the cherry.
Huge muffins, then cupcakes lure me,
protuberant domes of pink frosting
obviously eager to be licked.
Warm cinnamon rolls beckon too,

outer spirals tracing their way
to moist centers. I think I hear sirens
beyond the truffles. You seem rapt,
obviously tempted by hot éclairs,
the softest, bulging with cream,

icing dribbled along the top.
By then I am with the brioche,
light, sweet, round, wee,
begging me to use two fingers,
pry apart each delicate crust.

You revive, stretch, sway
your way to baguettes, hover,
choose the thickest, turn to go.
I come behind, a bit sad
our task here was to get bread.

(published by Clover, A Literary Rag)

 

 

 

 

 

Hat on em embress leaf stem
Hat on empress tree leaf
copyrighted Pilgrim photo

Mary's lavender field
Lavender Field by Mary Dale

 
  Timothy Pilgrim, a native of Montana and retired university journalism professor living in Bellingham, WA, is a Pacific Northwest poet and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have been accepted more than 500 times by journals such as Toasted Cheese, Mad Swirl, Cirque, Santa Ana River Review, Windsor Review, Hobart, Otoliths and Prole Press in the U.S. Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. He is the author of Mapping water and Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems, which the back cover calls “a 10 on any Richter imagination scale.”