Bakery Mornings
Happy Birthday to the PPLP Poetry Hoot! November marked our 10th year and the audience, featured poets and open mic readers all lived up to the legacy of excellence. Poems during the open mic covered politics (of course, given the election the day before), Thanksgiving, the coming of winter and many other seasonal topics, but one poem, by young Molly Hearn, seemed to sum up Portsmouth, in an season. Her brief portrait of any coffee shop uses specific images to remind us of the diversity and the commonality in our community. Stop by Ceres Bakery or Breaking New Grounds some morning and you may find yourself in this poem. Its simplicity is its success; it leaves us wanting to know the rest of the stories.
-- Lesley Kimball
Bakery Mornings
A young wife
with a wish
to go to Montana
A man, old, graying
cigarette in one hand
breakfast diet coke in the other
Also a small boy
who just wants
a blueberry muffin
- Molly R. Hearn
"Bakery Mornings” Copyright 2008 by Molly R. Hearn.
Molly is a student currently in a gap year taking time to work and play.
Please note: Poems submitted to this column should not exceed nineteen lines.