Elizabeth Alford features Nov 27

_Always open mic, always free:_ 11/27/2017 ELIZABETH ALFORD hosted by J. D. A longtime fan of short poetry, ELIZABETH ALFORD (Hayward, CA) usually writes on her laptop, but in its absence will settle for her cell phone. Her work has recently appeared in print in POETALK, and various online venues such as brass bell: a haiku journal, haikuniverse, and the cherita: your storybook journal. Please visit her author page @ Facebook.com/ELIZABETHALFORDPOETRYHEAVEN IS MY MOTHER’S APPLE PIE by Elizabeth Alford Once a year (and only under the best possible circumstances) my mother makes her apple pie, and that first bite—oh! how buttery and crumbly the crust, how spicy the forbidden fruit filling still warm from the oven and swirls of cinnamon, sweet and tang waltzing to flavor on the ballroom floor of my tongue—is almost enough to make me sing praise to a god I don’t believe in, even though I know deep in my heart and in my stomach that if there is an afterlife, it is after Thanksgiving dinner and that my mother is a god of gods who can bake the whole of the universe into a pie.