Impossible things

In the mailbox this morning was a quotation from Madeline L*Engle (sorry Madeline... I still have no apostrophe) which spoke of blessing six difficult, problematic people before breakfast (referring to the White Queen from Lewis Carroll*s Through the Looking Glass).  I have always liked the quotation.  The time before breakfast, that barely awake time before the coffee has really kicked in, allows me to consider things which don*t seem possible later in the day.

Impossible things are more likely possible

To consider

Before breakfast.

My barely conscious brain

Hardly knows

Which end is up

Or down

Or sideways.

This is the best time to write,

Newly awakened

The plate of impossible things

On the breakfast table

With the morning coffee.

Me and the White Queen

Clink our juice glasses.

We consider

Impossible things.