“COBBLER”

by Tauwan Patterson

in remembrance

Two matching cans of peaches in the cupboard
I can make that work said the chef’s eager hands
Flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter for the crumble
Said the kitchen : for your cobbler, we got all that

Second go round went with a can of diced pineapples
Upside down cake like taste please come inside
This time add the cake mix on top said the sibling
Didn’t forget lemon extract and that sweet sugar brown

One hour later :
Science forged
Let them taste it
Foot stomps/Eyes closed/Watery eyes

Hailing from South Central, Los Angeles, Tauwan Patterson is a Black + Queer Poet and recent graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. His work has appeared in online literary magazines Cool Beans Lit, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, Muse-Pie Press’ Shot Glass Issue #41, the Rising Phoenix Review, The Amazine, University of Baltimore’s Welter Literary Journal, and JMWW, and will also appear in the forthcoming Moonstone Arts Center anthology Which Side Are You On?!, With his poetry Tauwan aims to, in the words of the great Poet and Thinker Marcus Jackson, announce his freedom and presence. Making a sound that echoes in the end that says Tauwan Patterson. No more. No less.