bar open after rain / platform 3½

cafesweets.bar

do not straighten the menu

jam at the window

The awning still drips. A spoon taps the glass. Raspberry preserve keeps a small red moon for whoever arrives crookedly.

cream light / chipped sill / violet crumbs

crumb
counter

not a menu shortcake ruin

cream under the rain awning, strawberry roofs, one ant with sugar.

crossed-out price violet spoon fog

served sideways on old marble gray with a pastoral argument.

ask the jam tea-sunk custard

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.

pressed violets, damp receipt, wild cream

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

cream
jam
sugar

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