Breakfast at The Beach

Breakfast at The Beach

written by: Joan Leotta

@joanleottawrite

Before dawn, I rolled my eggs into a cigar shape and placed them on a long bun, then took my breakfast to eat while I watched dawn at our small community beach. Me. Birds. The Sun. Only a few other people.

Once arrived, I settled in and unwrapped my sandwich, eyes fixed on the beauty of the sun coming out of the calm waters at the horizon line. Birds lined up to watch as well, facing that spot behind the waves where the sun was emerging. Most of them.
A giant seagull, a different breed from the regulars, swooped by my chair, grabbing my sandwich. He circled my head, gloating, then glided down only a few steps from me to enjoy my breakfast.

I laughed at first. This unwanted visitor would be gone by spring, I reasoned. Then I glanced around me. The other gulls were still lined up, but not watching waves any longer. Rather, these smaller local gulls were eyeing the interloper. Learning new techniques, I feared. Perhaps even after the large gull moved on to bigger beaches, my plans for early morning beach visits would include rising a bit earlier to eat at home.

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Joan Leotta

Joan Leotta plays with words on page and stage. She performs folk and personal tales of food, family, strong women on stages across the country and in Europe and offers a one woman show bringing Louisa May Alcott to modern audiences. Internationally published as essayist, poet, short story writer, and novelist, she’s a two-time Pushcart nominee (fiction and poetry), Best of the Net nominee, Western Peace Prize, and a 2022 runner-up in Robert Frost Competition. Her essays, poems, CNF, and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Impspired, Spillwords, One Art, Lothlorien, Ekphrastic Review, Ovunquesiamo, Red Eft, Verse Visual, Verse Virtual, Gargoyle, Silver Birch, Yellow Mama, Mystery Tribune, Synkroniciti, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Pure Slush, several Murderous Ink Anthologies, and others. Her poetry chapbooks are Languid Lusciousness with Lemon (Finishing Line), and Feathers on Stone (Main Street Rag).

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