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Blueprint in Sugar
(after )

dough — the nut
round, risen,
secretly tender

éclairs — bolts
sleek barrels
brimming with custard resolve

washers —
flat wafers of caramel snap
kissed round by a cutter’s rim
slid between chew and cream
to keep the whole from
unravelling

torque and teaspoons
tighten sugar‑threads
’til they sing under tension

ganache runs
in straight, clean rivulets —
the plumbing of a dream

and when the blueprint is eaten
every nut, bolt, wafer gone
we sweep the table
free of crumbs 

left only with

the memory
of how sweet
structure
can be

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