Kate Morgan is a writer and filmmaker from the U.S. who teaches English internationally to Chinese students.  Art is life. Poetry is soul. Theory, however, is joy.

 

Morning Song

 

One soft whispering

refrigerator motor;

I eat plums and cream.

 

Two beautiful hands

prepared them,

pink tips flashing

amid knife and flesh.

 

Three clock hands tick on

slowly, marking time.

 

Forty minutes to

spend with you each morning is

not enough–never enough.