EAT! Festival

I sent a poem to be considered for a festival in Newcastle and I was selected!  One of thirteen poets, I will be reciting my poem, 'Cake', at Newcastle's EAT! Festival on Bank Holiday Sunday.  I was on holiday in Whitby when my dad alerted me to the competition so I had to write this poem pretty quickly as I only had 24 hours to get something sorted (most of which were spent either eating fish n chips or on the beach playing with the frisbee!!) The poem had to be no more than ten lines long.

Anyway, here it is (and here's the event http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/eat-festival/food-adventures/the-speakeasy-and-salon/results/the-speakeasy-and-salon-eat-our-words-p712081)

Cake
 
Slice it open and what you will find inside
is what a person might hide in the depths of their mind.
Layers of colour: sponge, fruit and jam,
like the players in Shakespeare or Fitzgerald's Madames.
Cake, like stories, is a quest to embark on,
but it disappears with no canon to make a mark on.
An adventure, a playground, different types to taste,
like a woman, devour her, the story yours
to embrace. 

© Caitriona Hansen