Anuja Acharya was our Honorable Mention winner in our inaugural Student Poet Laureate Awards in 2008, sponsored by the North Carolina English Teachers Association. This is a luscious poem. John York and I wished we'd been able to enjoy a meal like this one.
Anuja is a freshman at NC State University. Like Katherine Indermaur (see previous post) she graduated from Enloe High School in Raleigh. Her poem was submitted by Priscilla Chappell, her English teacher there.
Death By Chocolate
Crusty chunks of Rosemary olive bread
With a thick, fruity
Extra virgin olive oil
Flavored with garlic and dried rosemary.
Followed by
Insalata di Palma, the roasted peppers and artichoke hearts
Caressed in the depths of mesculin greens
Laced with robust lemon mustard vinaigrette.
Followed by
An airy, light, tart raspberry sorbet
Sliced with a sharp, peppermint edge
Garnished with a single sprig of fleshy spearmint.
And for the execution
The layers of chocolate
Her layers of Dante's hell
A fine dark experesso chocolate pudding
And a crusty white chocolate crumble cake
Cut with chocolate shavings and milk chocolate
Pudding.
Death by chocolate. And then some.
--Anuja Acharya
(Our Honorable Mention winner, Anuja Acharya with her parents.)
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