"Untitled II,"
Aradhna Tandon
Amy Miller

Heaven

I had a dream of heaven
and it was a room full of food,
rum cakes and sugar stews
and six or seven
giant roasted moa birds. We all
just ate, just let
our tongues discern the salt
and shudder under the sweet
and let it all go down
like heaven was a holding cell
for pleasure. And why not tell
God to keep the oven
hot? We'll be longing
for soft loaves
and sin puddings after our lives
have been hammered down to nothing
by our hearts that grew
too fat, by driven, dour
cancers that ruined
everything that mattered, by our 
own strange blood that couldn't handle
sweets. We'll be ready to sit down
and swallow heaven
by the handful.