Butter Melting – v2

She marched into the kitchen

all purposeful and proud

step stool from the bathroom

in her four-year-old arms

“I’m going to watch the butter melt!”

she proclaimed to all the world,

or at least to me at the sink;.

Two sticks of butter in the clear glass bowl,

not yet ready for their joining with the other ingredients

for a planned batch of sugar cookies -

Sitting unmoved on the counter, defiantly not melting,

because Shanequa made that statement, I’m sure!

“What a wonderfully exciting life you have…”

I laughed to myself to her left

watching butter melt…

and then she said, “I can see it melting!”

I wonder if she really did,

if something in her child’s mind

could grasp the infinitesimal movement of the cells,

the molecules of the butter, the sticks,

in the bowl, on the counter;

waiting, maybe wanting,

to be something bigger than itself

to meld with the rest

to form our treats

To tickle her tongue,

after the making, the baking,

once the frosting, the sprinkles,

and the special “wham” from her older sister

sealed in their goodness

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edited March 8, 2018

Butter Melting – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/03/butter-melting-v2.html

after finding this poem in a list of my popular poems

on Literary Devices site about my poetry

https://literarydevices.net/raymond-a-foss/

May 17, 2006 6:47am

Butter Melting

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.jp/2006/05/butter-melting.html

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