The Egg Holder

I so admired this egg holder when I visited my mother that she gave it to me for my 50th birthday present.

The egg holder

The tin egg holder enveloped
yet another hard boiled delicacy,
this time in America,
to be eaten in a sterile
office at a local aerospace company.
Distant memories of picnics
in the Swiss Alps still
echo inside the egg holder, generations
past now, their strength
decreasing ever so slightly
with every opening.