Monday, February 4, 2013

Morning Songs





Back in the days when I was known as "The Cake Man" among my co-workers, it was, as you might guess, my favorite food. Any kind of cake could get my attention ... and have me reaching for a fork at the same time.


Even the smell of a freshly-baked cake would catch my attention as little else could.


I still relish the smell of that now-forbidden food.


Where am I going with this? I'm wandering just a bit down memory lane. Just as I still relish the smell of a freshly-baked cake, I relish old memories.


They don't feed me like present events do, but they bring me comfort ... and I like that.


I certainly don't live in the past ... any more than I can experience a future which hasn't arrived yet. I do like to pay visits to some events of the past, though ... just like I enjoy "visits" to the possibilities of a future which lies vaguely ahead somewhere out there.


That said, the poem:


MORNING SONGS


Cold mornings,
when I fold
my towel, drape it
again on the rack,
I sometimes hear
the music of eggs
sizzling, gravy
burbling softly
in the frying pan,
coffee perking,
leaping against
its knobbed glass
ceiling, muttering
in darkening tones,
and sometimes
I catch the scent
of that kitchen,
that magic time
 
so distant, but
still wafting.
© 1998
(originally published in Moose Bound Press)


Today's word: sizzling

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