Monday, October 21, 2013

Amuse Bouche

....... Hers was the best apple-tart
in Ireland, you said, made with rough,
sour apples, lashings of beet sugar
from the factory in Mallow, and Bird’s
instant custard from the tin –


from Mary Noonan’s poem Goodnight, Vienna (the Cork Literary Review 2013)

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