ginger snaps – iced by Norma Kerby

November 28, 2023
Poem title: ginger snaps – iced Poet name: Norma Kerby Poem: never schedule a meeting in November or December every weekend including Fridays is booked with bazaars and Christmas sales and concerts and other ways to raise money as purses open and wallets flap with good will it would have been easier to donate the money butter alone cost more than what they charged for the carrot cake and those ginger snaps she worked half a day making them and put them into her favourite container and they sold that too then Ralph still a widower came in with twelve loaves of bread he made himself now that would be a catch a man who baked for church bazaars but he slipped through the back door and passed in the bread like illegal contraband she tried to talk to him but he was too quick and disappeared but so did her special tin with the hinged lid and pictures of Princess Diana’s wedding End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Norma Kerby Previously published in Prairie Journal on-line, Fall, 2017. Norma Kerby appreciates the roles that poetry can play in conversations about societal and environmental issues. As a member of the writing group, Writers North of 54, she was recently involved in a project with the Prince Rupert Public Library to distribute donated copies of the (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications, 2022) to libraries and reading rooms in northern British Columbia. Her chapbook, “Shores of Haida Gwaii”, is an ecological exploration of the unique shorelines of these important islands. In addition to writing, she is also involved in monitoring amphibians and garter snakes and working for the preservation of wetlands and other unique habitats in northwest B.C.