I love coffee
The first bracing taste
Reflected on my lover’s lips
A dusky harbinger of day.
I love coffee
The memory of graduation
To the sharing of fresh grounds
With my smiling mother.
I love coffee
Anticipating sleepily
My favorite rest-stop on the toll road
With the strongest joe around.
I love coffee
Caffeinated communion
At the end of countless walks
Across a nectar-filled wilderness.
I love coffee
The emblem of belonging
In small communities across
The frozen northern plains.
I love coffee
For I have learned
That coffee is
Love.
1 comment:
You have wonderfully captured all that is sacred about coffee...the ritual,the taste(s), the punctuation of a journey, rites of passage,community and the BUZZ.
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