The Egg

Leaf 150 – Looking Back

 

Following on from Leaf 149, this poem was another originally published in still 3: four (1999). Even now, all these years later, I’m still not fully sure what it means. Thinking back, I seem to recall it was prompted by ‘a haiku moment’ which came to me while I was actually cooking an egg – probably making one of my eponymous “East Ham Sandwiches” (honey roast ham and an egg, fried on both sides but with the yolk still partly liquid; with salt, black pepper and ketchup, between buttered white bread), which I used to live on when I was a student living in London’s East Ham! – Looking back through this edition of still, I see this poem was also the “Editor’s Choice” for that issue.

 

 

In the frying pan

the egg –

 

making up a mind

that was never made.

 

 

 

Photographs by Tim Chamberlain.