SITTING AT TABLE

Sitting at an open table
up here in Vermont
catching a cable series
of 20th century
French comedies
broadcast from Montreal
munching on croissants
as my aunt bakes with ease
from her bed of recipes
in a large breakfast nook
offering me small crunchy
white marble cakes
after a steak and eggs
she cooks up
in a souffle pancake
of her own delicious food
then begs to demand
that I play a Chopin etude
on her baby grande.