National Poetry Month – Day 12 – Ida Matilda’s Cream Pitcher
National Poetry Month – Day 12
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
I post a new poem each day in April.
Ida Matilda’s Cream Pitcher
I loved to spend endless, languid
days at Grandma’s house, sitting
around her plentiful kitchen table. Ida
Matilda’s raisin-filled cookies, sprinkled with
granulated sugar,
apple pies and yeast breads served hot from her
oven
tart cherry desserts and homemade blackberry
jam.
I poured heavy cream this morning, from her
old ivory creamer, a
little piece of McCoy pottery, circa 194o, Art
Deco, with faded daisies and pale green
leaves, beside
a glass vase of old-fashioned pink roses on a
soft cotton table cloth, the color of Ida’s
blushing cheeks.
Creamers like this had a mate but the open sugar
bowl, now lost.
Reservations were never necessary
even when times were tough, she served her
husband and 7 children
around the abundant table. A tolerant
Mother, she filled her creamer with sweet
milk every day.
Patiently I touch the smooth brown glazed
handle
Ida’s cream pitcher felt cool in my
septuagenarian hand
today. It spilled out the sound of her laughter
caused me to cinch my fingers around its girth
her pale eyes were the ice blue winter sky.
Every time I hold her cream pitcher it
reveals memories of refreshing new cream.
by Lynda McKinney Lambert (2017)
Published:
_Abbie’s Corner of the World, Blog, 2017
_Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Star Signs. DLD Books, 2019.
_Read at presentation for Ellwood City Historical Society, January 2020.
_Newsreel Magazine, voice recording, September 2021.
_Walking by Inner Vision Blog, April 12, 2023.
Lynda McKinney Lambert
MISSION STATEMENT
- I reveal what is forgotten, lost, or invisible through art and writing.
© April 12, 2023. Lynda McKinney Lambert. All Rights Reserved.
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