Puffin Coffee Mug
My brother gave me a coffee mug,
an Atlantic Puffin. The body
was black and white, the handle
an abstract head, white with the colorful
beak that gives the bird a clown-like look.
It has a good heft to it when in my hand.
It went in the cupboard with my other bird cups:
American Goldfinch, Eastern Bluebird.
It reminds me of my birding
trips to Alaska and Maine.
I don’t remember how but the handle
fell off the body, the dog must have knocked it off.
I was lucky, it fell into 2 pieces, the body
was not damaged. There was hope for repair.
The break was in the neck of the puffin.
Gorilla glue to the rescue. I managed to hold
the pieces together. You wouldn’t know the break
was there. The true test: will the mended pieces
hold when the mug was filled with coffee?
I don’t let anyone else use it for fear
of it breaking again. It is irreplaceable.
My brother gave me that mug.
Silkworm
Sept 2025
