cream under the rain awning, strawberry roofs, one ant with sugar.
bar open after rain / platform 3½
cafesweets.bar
do not straighten the menu
The awning still drips. A spoon taps the glass. Raspberry preserve keeps a small red moon for whoever arrives crookedly.
crumb
counter
served sideways on old marble gray with a pastoral argument.
a wobbling custard note, taped too low, refusing the baseline.
this way maybe →
← no, the spoon lied
garden
pour
A rose wash grows around the teacup, catches a violet shadow, then wanders into faded pistachio grass. The cake crumbs pretend to be seeds.
tasting
altar
marble remembers every spoon
Tiramisu labeled like an archaeological specimen. A cupcake rests on a broken pediment. Nobody dusts the cocoa from the evidence.
after
rain
bar
the cherries bounced once and refused to be icons
Late afternoon clotted cream paper. Bruised lavender in the corners. A tiny dessert bar invents its own weather.
last sip / dusk receipt
last slice
before dusk
Please leave the sugar spoon where it fell. The marble counter will close itself after one more violet crumb.
come back crooked tomorrow