Special Selection for the 2022/2023 Winter Holiday Issue
Poetry by Will Neuenfeldt
Baked snowflakes
naked on their trays
await little cousins
armed with butter knives,
ready to blanket the batch
with freshly dyed ice.
The first trays are pristine
with green Tannenbaum’s
adorn with ribbon and stars
while Frosty holds a pipe
in his parabolic smile.
Only then they delve into
Betty Crocker’s nightmare
as frosting blends brown,
sprinkles flurry onto linoleum,
and the older boy is scolded for
the phallus he penned
onto Frosty’s best friend.
Like the sheets of snow
covering the Holiday landscape
they are unique but
thankfully edible and sweet.
Will Neuenfeldt studied English at Gustavus Adolphus College and his poems are published in Capsule Stories, Open, and Red Flag Poetry. He lives in Cottage Grove, MN, home of the dude who played Steven Stifler in those American Pie movies and a house Teddy Roosevelt slept in.
