Dissidence in Black
The Ethiopian coffee is dripping then it starts to rush
when I move the filter and suddenly it cascades with noise
and I am waiting on it to unfill
so that I can calmly wipe the plate
and then enjoy a cup of strange dissidence.
Summer Again
Soaking up the rain and whipping spit of the waves, as he stood next to the ocean of my memory, a fire hydrant in a red windbreaker, glaring in the midst of a water storm, how I wished it was summer again. Matching silver rings and glances over coffee, army jackets and annual cigarettes, looking at the stonework on the buildings forever, necks craning to see the falcons carved like gargoyles, high enough, on their third story ledges, to amaze us but not so close as to pose any real threat. Under the willow tree, I will always be, with his hands on my shoulders.
