My Nana Bay's Jubes

Odd heavenly treat
My Nana Bay giving them to me
They are small stereos playing music
Sugary delight
Brings back memories of her

Tasty gentle aniseed flavour
As black as space
Snow made of sugar
Swallow, swallow
Odd heavenly treat

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This poem was Highly Commended (Primary) for Poetry Object 2016

Judge's Notes:
"Jubes are sweet, and usually colourful small candies, often gummy or resinous, sometimes harder. This resonant poem’s jubes are special, however, because of their attachment to love, family and memory, as memory transforms the world and experience. Not only that, these jubes are active. Mysteriously but also as an apparent matter-of-fact, they become other things, ‘small stereos’ or ‘snow’. The poem is full of opposites, and these strange parallels. Maybe it’s like the way sweets change in the mouth, as their colours and flavours change. The writer has emphasised this in delightful ways, such as ‘odd and heavenly’, a wonderful, strange juxtaposition."
~ Jill Jones, Judge, Poetry Object 2016