Original DDE™ art: “Creamy Comfort” — by: rob kistner © 3/24/26
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ice cream arrives
not as dessert
but as permission
a small collapsing tower
of sweetness
and surrender—
cradled briefly
in glass
helplessly drawn
we lean toward it
as if toward memory…
as if something in us
recognizes the moment
is fleeting—
so we embrace it
before it disappears
the sweetest chill
on tip of tongue
…then bloom
…then softness
…then surrender
…then exhilaration—
then gone
and yet
what lingers
is not just taste
but the escape—
the easing—
the gentle undoing
the undoing
of the weight
we carried
into that day
it does not solve anything—
it does not need to…
it simply reminds us
…the taste of love is sweet
…that there are still places
…moments
where brilliant joy
explodes—
captures us completely—
then melts slowly away
and that is
perfectly enough
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To die for…
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rob kistner © 03/24/26