One more time this week I have
made breakfast and
it is not the right breakfast

The right breakfast exists
on some astral plane
dimensionally opposed

To ours

One more time I am reminded
that the jam eating food tolerating rest of the world also
exists on

Some far off plain with
an ecosystem unlike
this sparse landscape of a home that
I must thrash my conscience into
loving

Food desiccates on moody plates

Yet like all early morning bleak space
when I am still enough I find
it is encrusted with life

January 15, 2025