Poem by Giulianna DiNapoli

I Want Cake 

Cake 
is all I want, of
ancestral Egyptian spelt,
Demeter descended within wispy chaff
speared like Roman warriors, god-gifted 
Cleopatra on the Nile where they can eat cake, 
wise like winds that swept the plains, swept the seed.
And you, my sweet descendent, gift of goddesses’ seed I
planted on this earth, seed that sprouted across the plain, 
golden like fields of spelt, fermented in foreign wind,
I wish you all the icing.  

Image: Photo by Eye for Ebony on Unsplash

Other poems and essays by G. DiNapoli have appeared in literary journals and reviews, as well as Stanford Medical blog, in Europe and the US.  She is an Italian American from Washington, DC.