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# Lost
- URL: https://dianaludwick.com/lost/
- Published: 2026-02-02T01:49:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:12:12.000Z
- Description: "Lost," another snow day and morning plans temporarily gone astray. Poem 033, written February 2nd, in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Poems, Cooking, French toast, Kids, Kitchen, lost, Mother-Daughter dynamics, pain perdu, parenting, Snow Day, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

Another Snow Day  
I’ll be kind, make a hot meal.  
Saw through day-old baguette  
Pain perdu.   
  
Whisk eggs cream vanilla spice salt   
Soak holey oblongs   
Heat pan  
Skate butter  
Ferry saturated slices over to pan  
Sizzle to satisfaction.  
  
Child arrives  
I sense her beside me.  
I’m making French toast!  
I say.  
  
No response  
except  
I hear  
dry cereal hit ramekin.  
  
For you   
I clarify.  
I see that  
she parries.  
  
*Fickle*.  
  
I have an abundance  
I guess I’ll meal prep.  
  
Shuttle golden   
crisped slabs to plate  
Make scrambled custard   
from remaining soaking batter.  
  
Sit  
by  
my  
self.  
  
Hear a rustle in the kitchen  
See a form hover by the counter  
Noisy mastication fills the air  
Mmmm! She says.  
  
Without prodding   
she joins me at the table  
with a plate heaped with toast and egg.  
Thanks Mom this is great!  
  
*Trust the process*  
  
This morning  
neither bread  
nor love  
is lost.