SWEETS AT KENDAL BEFORE & DURING
COVID-19
In the Formal Dining Room,
when offered dessert,
I had ice cream almost every time
although I had not had any ice cream
for many years
except occasionally when summer temps
hit 100.
Awed, one night
when across from me
I heard the not-so-common words:
“No dessert.”
On my face, a question.
She answered:
“One Biscotti every night.”
Her treat to herself.
Now, a pandemic rages
and I turn to Tates,
preferably with ginger
but otherwise oatmeal-raisin.
Not as good as Trader Joe’s ginger thins,
but who can get to Trader Joe’s?
Ah, I think, a nightly treat.
Something I can look forward to.
But she has one
and I can hardly stop at two.
Roberta Poupon