Sunday, December 11, 2022

blessing over cafes


something intimate

about time in a cafe

when I am quiet inside

when the music, the books 

speak to me

 

she told me in a dream

decades ago

"you can come here

any time you want"

 

it's no mistake

when I am here

plotting my life's course

or resting by the side of its stream

 

we were in the Red Star Cafe

on that street beneath waking

her feet bare on the wood floor

she put an aura around the place

 

a protection, a blessing

for the perpetual possibility of that closeness

that intimacy

with her


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