She lives in one place and
one place only: the entrance
to a bakery where she has conjured
a swirling rainbow display of cupcakes she
pictures herself at the counter her voice
sweetens an octave for “two please” wheremid
she conjures in the cashier’s fingers
that plant the sticker on the box the
assurance that sticker will only be
plucked away when there are two
to conjure an arching future wheremid red
orange yellow blue food colouring she lives
only there: an achronicle, a powdered-sugar
spell that sifts into every time
so it runs out just before
the batch of icing that would congeal her hopes
…
Julia DaSilva’s poetry has appeared in Eclectica, Lychee Rind zine, Cathexis, Sapphic Writers Collective, Half A Grapefruit, High Shelf Press, and Reckoning. She writes fantasy as well as poetry, with a particular interest in the politics of magic systems. Her writing explores political responsibility, love, and embodiment in worlds coming apart and being rebuilt.
