What does a dose of glucose?

Mother used to
make marble
of pinky-orange,
more of a gradient
than a colour
really
on gleaming
silver tea spoons
or double-ended plastic
that induced
sweet infant suspension
and the request for
another tsp

Now I
like to mix
the pink Calpol
with the orange,
to make the colour of a
winter sunset
that paints
in sugary syrup
quadruple dose,
a glowing halo
that hangs
over the end
of icy days.