A Sunset Pareidolia 

During the 24 hour shift/ the Candyland of day
heralds the time for rest/ as the sky closes its curtains
and the Maker marks the day’s long recess/
embroidering the air with a chocolate coin in rose gold foil.
Clouds are blown like coconut macaroons in sugar-crisped wind/
bumping into a few watermelon meringues.
Sunset. A concoction of sweet dreams to come/
a display of metaphors above.

Roula-Maria Dib (PhD, Leeds) is a creative writer and literary scholar whose poems and articles have appeared in several books and journals. She has authored two books, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2020) and a poetry collection, Simply Being (Chiron Press, 2021). She is the founding editor of literary and arts journal Indelible and creative producer of literary event series, Indelible Evenings. Dib is also the founder and director of Psychreative, a monthly event for artists and writers with a background in Jungian psychology and co-editor for the forthcoming Routledge collection, Feminisms and Technology. She is also the food blogger behind Beyond Zucchini, a member of the Poetry Society, the British Association for Modernist Studies, the International Association for Jungian Studies, and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the American University in Dubai.