Well, I’m not so sure that frosting the cake or anything else before you bake it is a good idea. Leave it to the Japanese: ‘Shimo no koe – First Frost!”, probably some kind of trick they know how to do – a Samurai baking thing. What if it is a Zen Koan: “What was your cake before it was baked?” asks the Zen Master. “First Frost!” replies the student. I don’t know, it is beyond my limited mind/body duality Western brain. If I tried to frost something first there would be nothing but goo.
Maple sugar drips
Baked long in Summer’s oven –
Cool Autumn Frosting
For dVerse Haibun Monday
qbit 
😆😆 Now this is an original, tongue-in-cheek take on first frost! Love your light-hearted tone and clever wordplay!
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Ahahaha! Thanks. I’m on a roll today. Hopefully not a jelly roll.
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Nice humorous tone in this. I like the frosting cooling.
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Thanks!! I was hoping it would come out that way.
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Delicious, both the words and the cake I am inspired to bake–
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Smiling, here. I like that you took it outside the box and tickled my sweet tooth. Not sure if I want to go for something sweet, or to take a nap and think about the Koan.
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Hahaha! Thanks.
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Fun bit of writing, but that Haiku also dips back into my northern memories quite effectively. The amber resin blinked right into my mind’s eye as I read it.
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Tapping the trees is a lot of fun, but boiling off the water is awfully time consuming if you don’t have a proper sugar house!
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Sounds like work…
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Unexpectedly so, lol! One of those “Hey, kids! Let’s tap the trees and make our own syrup” kinds of things that started out fun but ended in a horrible multi-day grind of boiling syrup on the back grill and blowing through tank after tank of gas.
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Oo, dark poetry. I’m from the Midwest, so we boiled sassafras roots and hunted morrells. Much easier.
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What was the cake before it was baked? as usual I love myself a good question… it’s what we need
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I like the upside-down, back-to-front making of nature’s frost. Good one!
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LOL – I trust you frosting efforts will beat your Zen & Japanese dabblings hands down. Love the myth of East vs. West: Mono vs Duo. Laughing still
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We need that summer baking before we can frost the cake in autumn.
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Maple syrup IS labor intensive, but oh so sweet! Great write.
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I adore your levity & audacity. Maple trees here in the NW do not share their sap, but your off-side, unique take on the prompt tickled most of us.
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Thanks, lol!
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I love this!
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(chuckling…)
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