Chocolate

Chocolate...

No, I'm not  eating it,

just  knitting chocolate fantasies.

I bought thick skeins

of Lion Brand Wool-Ease,

in a dye lot  named "Wood."

Think tree bark.

The worsted weight yarn

color variations run from

light milk chocolate to Carmel 

to rich dark chocolate.

The thread runs through your fingers

like hot fudge slithering over fat

scoops of vanilla ice cream.

And I long for Krause's candy.

The Krause family makes homemade candy

with a multitude of fillings:peanut butter, 

coconut, nuts and raisins, marzipan pan. 

You  choose your favorites  to fill half-pound 

to pound-and-a-half size boxes.

Jim has been known to eat 

a half-pound to cure a cold.

I opt for dark chocolate.

Jim prefers light.

The candy store is in New York.

I am in Florida.

So, I'm making due

with fine memories.

And knitting socks for a chocolate lover.