Sreelekha Chatterjee
Sreelekha Chatterjee is a poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have appeared in Madras Courier, Setu, Raw Lit, The Mini Magazine of Assam, Pena Literary Magazine, Verse-Virtual, The Wise Owl, Ghudsavar Literary Magazine, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Poetry Catalog, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, Medusa’s Kitchen, Litmora Literary Magazine, The Literary Times, Ukiyo Literary Magazine, and in the anthologies—The Harvest & the Reaping, Winter Glimmerings, and Whose Spirits Touch (Orenaug Mountain Publishing, USA) and Christmas-Winter Anthology Volume 4 (Black Bough Poetry, Wales, UK).
A Bite of Bread with Jam
We set foot on earth to eat the floury food.
All tragedies and comedies of life it encompasses.
Splendor of jam on bread is all we seek for good.
Bread slices on a rack in one layer brood;
watched in a preheated OTG for a few minutes.
We set foot on earth to eat the floury food.
Toast with two golden brown sides like a coffee well brewed.
The chef’s expertise lies in the alluring colour’s opulence.
Splendor of jam on bread is all we seek for good.
Crackly with crumbs spewing radiant mood.
Perfection of a crispy delight like a clay body fired in a kiln.
We set foot on earth to eat the floury food.
Addition of jam—strawberry, apple, pineapple—layers multihued.
Its thick consistency and fruit chunks soften the hardened, sliced loaf.
Splendor of jam on bread is all we seek for good.
Have I earned the bread? With every grain, the question renewed.
From a luxurious apartment to a slum tenement, no one has any clue.
We set foot on earth to eat the floury food.
Splendor of jam on bread is all we seek for good.