"Relish on a Hotdog" - a poem by Audrey Austin

RELISH ON A HOTDOG

We used to be like relish

On a hotdog.

Now I am here.  You are there.

Slim space between

Yet I have built a mountain

In the middle.

Or was it you who

Cast the first stone

Leaving me alone

To add the boulders until

Now the mountain pass

Is blocked with innuendo

Wrapped in sarcasm?

I don’t relish hotdogs anymore.

 

This poem by Audrey Austin is one of the Judge's Selections in a Northern Ontario Poetry Collection, Volume Eighteen 2013 titled "Spirits in Stone".