My life’s work

poems
Published

October 3, 2022

  • is to sit in coffee shops
  • with strangers who feel
  • like home, every one of us
  • a vessel for croissants
  • and coffee we don’t taste.
  • We sunbathe and drink
  • behind windows
  • and wonder why
  • we’re still so pale.
  • Meanwhile the sun
  • continues to give
  • life to the land
  • and anyone who sees
  • that the exit
  • is the entrance,
  • that coffee
  • was meant to be enjoyed
  • in colder hands.