“Brie” by Carol Casey
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Brie” by Carol Casey, part of the 2025 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection.
Brie
By Carol Casey
I remember how my first brie
opened doors, back in the days
when cheese was plastic-wrapped
floppy slices of orange outfielders
waiting for the cheddar to commit
them a pop fly from home plate.
I remember there was wine,
although we weren’t old enough,
yet just old enough to revel
in a stolen base.
The brie was creamy, rich, smooth—
as if growing up wasn’t going
to be all hard, as if I knew,
someday, I’d meet you.
A home run, on crackers, with wine,
bases loaded.
Copyright © Carol Casey
Published as part of the 2025 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection
Carol Casey lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory, Blyth, Ontario with her husband, thousands of books and a large garden. Her work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Gastropoda, Santa Fe Literary Review, Dust Poetry, antilang, Sublunary Review, Popshot Quarterly and others, including a number of anthologies, most recently, Up Your Ars Poetica (Peters and Driscoll) and Stones Beneath the Surface (Black Mallard Press). She has published her first collection- What Can Happen: family and other raptures of imperfection.
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