Year-end Poem for Liz Huggins

Cake and Dirt
By Allison Berryhill

Some say the year will end in cake

Some say in dirt.

From what I’ve seen Liz Huggins bake

I hold with those who favor cake—

But if the year must close with hurt,

I think I know enough of pain

To say that for conclusion dirt—

Or mud, with rain,

Is just deserts.

--May 2012