Breakfast
Rent from DeepDyve- Breakfast
That way light comes into the kitchen,falls on a checkered tablecloth playingamong the field of spent toast crumbs.I look up, not intending to andjust like that, love leaves.Breathless with a sudden rage I pick up the bread knife.Your newspaper comes down and you watch,eyes hooded, cornered.More bread, I say, and offer youyour life back, stale and moldy. [End Page 56]
Chris Abani is an acclaimed novelist and poet. His most recent books are The Secret History of Las Vegas, The Face: A Memoir, and Sanctificum. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Hemingway Award, Edgar Prize, Ford USA Artists Fellowship, PEN Beyond the Margins Award, Prince Claus Award, Hurston Wright Legacy Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, among many other honors. Born in Nigeria, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Board of Trustees Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. He lives in Chicago. Visit www.chrisabani.com.
