In my dreams, we’re burglars
\nOur fingers ooze through castle walls of toffee and cloud
\nlike a warmed spoon through the toffee-walnut ice-cream I churned on your birthday
Our breath steals between the gaps in a snake-streusel door
\nlike the entire rhubarb-streusel pie you snuck into that terrifying French documentary
We dodge cardamom-bullets screaming out of paneer-dragon mouths
\nlike the recipe my mother frothed out over the phone, too pungent for your sister
We whisper past treasures of diamond-sugar and pearl-milk
\nlike—
\nlike—
Your text scalds me awake,
\nas warm and painfully bright as bedroom sunshine
\nBeen a while!
\nHow’s it going?
\nYou doing okay?\n
You don’t remember the heists we dreamed.
\nI don’t remember the taste of your kiss.
© 2025 Sharang Biswas
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