Eat Cake for Breakfast | Lisa Wiley

Lisa Wiley teaches creative writing at SUNY Erie Community College in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of three previous chapbooks including Chamber Music (Finishing Line Press, 2013).  Her work has appeared in Chest, Earth’s Daughters, Flash Frontier, The Healing Muse and Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. She has read her work throughout New York state and has served as a regional judge for Poetry Out Loud. Find Lisa Wiley on Twitter @wileymoz.   __________________________________ A Note to Kate Spade’s DaughterI couldn’t afford one of your mother’s purses,scoured the counterfeit vendors in vainfor a seafoam green wallet whenever I roamed New York.Her classic American style always on my wish list.Those sleek designs in bright, bold colorswhile dark caverns lingered within—my own walls painted taxicab yellow, Sausalito blue to escape that taunting darkness.Bea, it must have been one of those black ink dayswhen she fell into a deep stone well,a well so deep and da