When you boil water
you’re getting it excited
about potential,
about the potential
of becoming something else,
something like

A cup of tea (or coffee)
or something better –
a nest for pasta, perhaps,
filled with excited bodies
trying to fly or or

Or the liquid stuffing
for hot water bottles,
transparent goose feathers
to warm the bed or

A jiggle of fingers
teasing the egg
daring it not to break

Or a pool left to cool
after the summer

Or…

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Illustration courtesy and copyright, Jools Wilson.