Apple Pie and Custard

sweetness
spilling, spewing

softening -

her granite-hardened caramelised fruits -
butter-burned

bitter-edges -

smothered.
crevices flowed through. filled.

his vanilla-beaned-flavours

pouring. steeping.
hot custard -

sugar-sauced coating
covering -

her apple pie.

Image; Art Johnstone. "Apple pie and Custard'. The Refinery Cafe Paeroa, New Zealand.

Image; Art Johnstone. ‘Apple pie and Custard’. Refinery Cafe Paeroa New Zealand. Butter burned bitter edges sweetened……

It struck me - two people so long together - known to each other - as custard knows the pie - no secrets.

flowing through - joyous. No piece un-touched - un-covered -

two - becoming one -