Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #167

We Ate Cookie Dough
by Belinda Roddie

We ate cookie dough and drank cold cider
and beer while we waited for the sun to
go down across the bay. We later purred
for more sugary delights. Chocolate chips
and batter were all we could think about
in the harsh winter night. We bundled up
in sweaters thick as quilts, sitting beside
a fire stoked by love. We read stories
and sang songs before we sank into sleep.
When I woke up, you snored against my side,
your pretty hair in clumps across my chest,
your hands pressed into mine. I saved for you
a slab of cookie dough to fast devour
before settling with me for the next hour.