We made toffee apples to celebrate
our two year wedding anniversary.
You don’t like them at the best of times
but it was 2020 and there was a two month old
in our living room and we had to try
to be alive. We used chopsticks for sticks
and they just about handled their job.
The toffee didn’t set
and was borderline inedible.
We smiled with teeth
on a sofa we fell asleep on.

© Carl Burkitt 2023