Daybreak
Remember that morning when I woke early to find you eating oatmeal and I looked outside and the light was so beautiful?
“It’s a Maxfield Parrish painting, ” I said.
I sipped coffee, you ate oatmeal, and we watched the light seep into the backyard, saturating it like a golden liquid glaze.
Translucent, ethereal, calming.
This holy moment is wrapped in lace and tucked safely away in a corner of that part of me that is ours.
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This is beautiful and evokes memories of the Maxfield Parrish my father had,
Thank you! I’ve always wanted a MP print. (Or an original –ha ha!)
This poem is very beautiful, Jennifer. Thank you for writing it and sharing it with us. I particularly love the image “this holy moment is wrapped in lace”, it is both very intimate and innocent.
I had not seen a Maxfield Parrish’ Daybreak before but you pictured the moment just as the way the painting did: translucent, ethereal, and calming.
I also love the graceful movements of the two subjects here: You sipped your coffee while the daylight was seeping into the backyard. Sip and seep, the perfect choices of homophones.
You are hearing a finer poet than I am. And I certainly love you for it:)
You just did not know there is a poet in you.
I felt immersed in this moment. Great poem!