Pepitas don't look like
Pepitas taste nice but
A pumpkin muffin is soft and waits
Solidly on your desk, and waits
Warm flavor pausing, waits
For you to remember.
OR
A Noiseless, Patient Muffin
| A NOISELESS, patient muffin, | |
| I mark’d, where, on a little office desk, it stood, isolated; | |
| Mark’d how, to adorn the cluttered, flat surrounding, | |
| It launch’d forth fragrance, fragrance, fragrance, out of itself; | |
| Ever unreeling it—ever tirelessly speeding scent. | 5 |
| And you, O my Stomach, where you sit, | |
| Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of work, | |
| Ceaselessly eating, nibbling, snacking,—seeking the foods, to ingest them; | |
| Till the hunger you still have be fill’d—till your breakfast's anchor holds; | |
| Till the pumpkin-y muffin's strings catch somewhere, O my Soul. |
[Pumpkin muffin from Whole Foods, via Kevin. Thanks, Kevin. Sorry, Whitman.]
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2 comments:
I read that line as "warm flavor pulsing" rather than "pausing" and thought that was SOME muffin you have there....
Of course "pausing" totally is preferable in a muffin.
Yes. A pulsing muffin might indicate I need to have my meds adjusted.
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