Tonight's Poet Corner: Afternoon Snack

Afternoon Snack
by Belinda Roddie

She served me smoked salmon
and black pepper potato chips,
crème fraìche and lemon atop

the gift from the sea, blanketing

my tongue with a warm, edible foam -

a melted cloud from the sky, a discus

of sweet and sour snow, soaked

into each ridged red mountain range

while the crunch of the dry and spicy

earth lay for the taking below.