The day breaks / saffron
as butter / as egg yolk
seeping in through the
window / slips to the
centre of the pan /
water bubbles / sachet
splits / leaves spill / catching
like autumn leaves
weightless / for a moment
then gathered to the heat
collected to the china
bottom of the cup /
the night was short
of hours / steam and
jasmine fill the head / and
pot / shells / as fragile as
they are / must sometimes
be broken / bread
without wheat / fruit / that
might not be eaten / fold an
apology into a fried egg / a jar
a ragged day-old posey /
cracks in your mother’s
wooden tray / the day breaks
silver / like a teardrop /
another / toasted chance /
a freshly-squeezed new start