The Kettle Is a Small Volcano

by The Bright Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

The kettle is a small volcano with better manners. It gathers its thunder, shakes one silver lid, then whistles instead of covering the town in ash. I pour the eruption into two blue cups. Metaphor makes breakfast dangerous for exactly three seconds, then hands the morning back with tea.
49 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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