Hope by Marie-Anne Poudret
Dulce de leche stuffed churro by Ipsheeta Furtado This rod doesn't mind biting. Covered in dusty glitter that quickly consumes your blouse. "That chestal area is ever more attractive," they tell you mid-mouthful. It's the beastly behavior required to dominate a fried stick. "Go'n n slap dat," you're told. You walk up, order with confidence and upon collection, it's still too hot to handle safely. The crisp shell glistens with alluring machismo, surely the bravado of its Baker, offering a pitiful promise of pleasure. You find the futility surprisingly full of trite, sweet milk. Suddenly you are complete: finished, successed. No resembling donuts or holes would be the prize that this trick is. Put the foil casing on a shelf, if you may, preferably shaped into a swan that will hold Mardis Gras beads infinitum.
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Marie-Anne Poudret is a connector. Frenchborn, she has moved twenty-three times throughout her life, living in Africa, France, and England before settling in the Bay Area in 2005 with her husband and three children.
Marie-Anne Poudret was a French major at the University of Dijon in Burgundy, France. Currently in Dublin California, she writes poems, plays, and a Sci-Fi novel. She also gives online French lessons.
