✨ The Chocolate Artist

you and you and you...

The Chocolate Artist

Valrhona chocolates from France
stacked and patiently waiting
Guanaja 70% Dark, 35% Ivoire White

wearing a black apron
making cakes
cordials, making those

My sons checked out books on the Titanic
I checked out
cookbooks

showing off photos of her babies
#madewithlove
three delicate white chocolate stars

imagining customers
Will it be a man?
A woman?
A grandfather and granddaughter hand-in-hand?
you and you and you
85% Abinao dark chocolate

The next person
A young woman
A man in military fatigues
Out of town visitors just passing through
A man there for his son
A father throwing a chocolate party for his son
Cakes for the granddaughter, on the grandmother’s birthday

Next week, thinking of you
I pour

— Megan Willome, an erasure poem based on Monica Sharman's essay The Chocolate Artist

Used by permission of Megan Willome, author of The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life with Poems, T. S. Poetry Press, © 2016. Featured photo by Corina Rainer, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.