English Breakfast
There are realms
of deliciousness.
Different times
and moods
call for different responses.
English Breakfast is
the panacea.
Strong—
darkly mysterious—
the necessary vigour—
It’s James Bond,
or your mother
with a pistol in her knickers.
—Henrietta Lovell
Found poem by L.L. Barkat, from Henrietta Lovell’s words in Infused: Adventures in Tea, Faber & Faber, © 2019. Photo by Zugr, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.
That last verse - LOL funny;)