Toast. Warm. Buttery. Familiar. But to some, it’s more than just breakfast.
“All I can do now is to hold on to this gem, keeping it for them as I breathe in the smell of the freshly baked bread,” said Jacobi Brown, a College of the Canyons student, reading his poem at the 23rd annual Poets and Writers event.
Brown was one of 13 writers selected from nearly 100 submissions to read at the event.
Brown, an English major and editor for COC’s literary magazine Cul-De-Sac, shared a personal piece titled ‘Toast’.
“The most fond memory I have of them is the smell of the fresh bread that my grandfather would bake every other morning,” said Brown. “And when I was writing this piece, that smell was always in my head.”
“I never got to thank Nana and grandad properly for the gift of this moment before their memories were stolen away, I wouldn’t know how to if I tried, nor would granddad recall that I did,” said Brown
Just for a moment, Jacobi wanted the audience to sit in that memory with him.
“Experience that calm, wholesome, peacefulness, and then for me to explain to them why it’s so important to me,” said Brown.
