Inscription for a Burning Book | Sarah E. Colona

Sarah E. Colona is the author of Hibernaculum (Gold Wake Press, 2013), Thimbles (dancing girl press, 2012) and That Sister (dancing girl press, 2016). A graduate of George Mason's MFA program, she  lives in her home state: New Jersey.  BuckleMore cake than cobbler. Some call it slump. Some betty.But it’s forever August in my Memory’s kitchen:where peaches, butter, and brown sugar puddle.Sweetness something he too expectedin his clumsy reach for what was never offered.Some call three decades too late. Too faded.As if trauma grows stale for survivors.If not your vote, he would have your silence.Every recipe yields in the end.