Mary Pratt, Study for Butter and Honey, 2008, by Amy Phimister

Study for Butter and Honey 1, by Mary Pratt (Canada), 2008. Courtesy Mary Pratt and Mira Godard Gallery.

Mary Pratt, Study for Butter and Honey, 2008

Why is there a silver
soup ladle in the jar
mouth open to lucent
honey alive with floral
orange red hues on
that garish table cloth?
The jar hexagon shaped near
the square butter both sitting in
that rectangular dish,
foil twists out knife
on top the yellow spread
a breakfast scene
Mary Pratt painted
to bring us to
our senses.

Amy Phimister

This poem was written for the surprise challenge, ekphrastic poems inspired by Canadian paintings.
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After a long corporate career, Amy Phimister has returned to writing full time. She graduated from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame with a B.A. in Creative Writing.  A member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, she is currently working on a chapbook of her poems.