Anyway, here it is (and here's the event http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/eat-festival/food-adventures/the-speakeasy-and-salon/results/the-speakeasy-and-salon-eat-our-words-p712081)
Cake
Slice it open and what you will find inside
is what a person might hide in the depths of their mind.
Layers of colour: sponge, fruit and jam,
like the players in Shakespeare or Fitzgerald's Madames.
Cake, like stories, is a quest to embark on,
but it disappears with no canon to make a mark on.
An adventure, a playground, different types to taste,
like a woman, devour her, the story yours
to embrace.
© Caitriona Hansen