A basket of bagels,
what warming allure,
what promise of chew
in heft and contour!
Doughy and toothsome,
in rounds imprecise,
they conjure a magic
to melt snow and ice.
Winter dissolves
like slathered cream cheese
with a basket of holes
Della Robbia’d like these.
More thanks to all-seasons photographer S.W. Berg.
Oddments 