“They sat side by side”on the
top shelf of the cupboard,
empty, missing the little corks
that keep the salt and pepper
from a spill onto placemats.
Well over 100 years old,
I’ve kept them as though
made of the finest porcelain.
There is no special memory with them.
Perhaps the tiny little shakers
were meant for a breakfast tray,
along side a delicate vase
holding a single white daisy.
A gentle lady sits in her Victorian bedroom
with windows thrown wide to the morning sun
~ the little salt and pepper shakers ready
to brighten her morning eggs.
“Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains.”
~ Pat Conroy, author of The Great Santini
(1945 ~ 2016)
Inspired by You, the Reader by Billy Collins
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