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
after finding this poem in a list of my popular poems
on Literary Devices site about my poetry
May 17, 2006 6:47am
Butter Melting
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