There's a feeling, 
a taste,  
I almost cherish
in the pain of those butterscotch moments.

Stolen memories,
brief and bittersweet, 
tainted with a texture out of time.

Stolen moments,
Fleeting, bittersweet,
too quickly turn
like autumn leaves,
that taste of butterscotch
to fennel.     

                    - T. A. Pugh





Butterscotch Moments