Marmalade defies rationality


Sly, smiling breakfast man,
your fresh familiarity
defies rationality.
How can tea and toast
ignite a passion
that abandons cups and plates
on cluttered kitchen counters?

Decade by decade,
this reliable loveliness
is held before me --
astonishing me
with its familiar treasures.

Today, this tangy marmalade devotion
starts my day afresh,
and life's stormy desire
tramples up the stairs;
love's thunderous clamour
batters at the door.





Read RH Peat's responses to this poem.




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