Lea Galanter
Cakes Are Not Always Sweet
Half a century later
the grandeur of the cake
had not faded
its petticoat of icing
marked the shoreline
of that day, setting
a margin between chapters
the known and the unknown
she stumbled into a new kind of poverty
a tangled nest for a bookworm
rosewater mirror throwing sparks of change
nothing an hourglass could not reveal
in slices of prayers
Bio
Lea Galanter is a Seattle-area editor and writer with a background in history and theater. After writing plays for many years, she stumbled into the world of poetry and has never looked back. Her poetry has been published by Really System, River and South, Panoply, Young Raven's Literary Review, Poetica Review, Unlost Journal, and in several anthologies. She ventures regularly into the spaces between words seeking secret messages.