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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1030835-Pot
Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2248076
A poem a day each April, for Katya the Poet's Dew Drop Inn
#1030835 added April 17, 2022 at 2:04pm
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Pot
There was this one day when you wore it on your head
playing toddler knight in fake cahoots with daddy fencer
and the handle, facing backward, swooped and waved -
I laughed so long it was a fine distraction from the battle.

How hard I scrubbed it after, preparing for a family supper
with countertops so clean my knife made mirrored cuts;
And it filled to brim with celery, carrots, chicken, stock
I dropped dough in heaping spoonfuls brought to boiling

Once we played it, with a pan, a bowl, two wooden spoons;
clanging complicated compositions, bringing down the house
the kitchen clock and fridge provided tick and hum applause
you ran happy, headlong into me - we hugged in celebration

Now it captures water where it leaks when rains are hard
and sits under a certain spot, its only purpose now to catch
intermittent drips and memories in metallic pings. I'm back.
I laugh, and stir the stew, and, smiling, hold my son again.




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