A Cream-Puff Deferred
What happens to a cream-puff deferred?
Does it go to mold
Or gestate like a cheese
And turn to curd?
Do its insides liquefy—
And then ooze?
Or does it have to learn
to sing the blues?
Maybe its taste evolves
Like hundred-year-old eggs.
Or does it sprout legs?
by Richard Krepski
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Richard Krepski resides in the twilight zone between scientific rationalism and poetic lunacy. He is retired from a career as research scientist and educator. Information on his book Alchemical Gold (a conglomeration of poetry, cosmological speculation, and religious philosophy) can be found at substance-to-spirit.com. His poems have appeared in Mobius, Tiferet, Jesus Radicals, and Bolts of Silk. He won the Tiferet writing award in 2009 for his essay "Center of the Universe."