Angel Food Cake

by Elana Wolff

The way you get a twelve egg-
white angel food cake
out of a Bundt-

tin un-
molested is to hang it
upside-

down
on the neck of a bottle
to let it cool.

It then comes out
as high
and light as a shrine. Whimsical

you called my hanging
Bundt-
tin-on-a-bottleneck -

proverbial as
those angels
pirouetting on a pin-head.

Elana Wolff's poems have appeared (or will appear) in acta victoriana, dig, imelod, Intangible, paperplates, Outreach Connection, Firm Noncommital, Jones Av. Quarterly, The Writing Space Journal, White Wall Review, Descant, Defiance, Broken Pencil, Kairos 11, Tower Poetry, Radiance, lichen, Diviners, The Harpweaver and The Backwater Review.

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