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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Balcony Breakfast


When the sunshines hot before it 

even reaches noon, having breakfast 

on my shady balcony is a real treat. 

Sunday’s traffic is quieter. No service 

vans, or lumbering garbage trucks to 

invade the acoustics of the street. Clear 

and clean before the church bells chime,

I can hear the birds even if I don’t 

recognize their call or tweet or chirp. 

My breakfast of egg and bacon, 

grapefruit and toast served to me, 

by me, on my mom’s china plate 

makes this a special day of the week.

One lonely scout wasp challenged me to 

my buttered granola toast and blackberry 

jam. He lost that match or maybe didn’t 

find my breakfast as delicious as I did.


“Breakfast is a beautiful, elegant thing; 

a meal to be savoured and embraced.”

~ Jamie Oliver

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