The Innisfree Poetry Journal www.innisfreepoetry.org by Gary Stein LEFT ALONE IN THE CAFÉ REGGIO If the sun were the size of a skyscraper, the earth
would be the size of a person. The moon would be the size of a cocker spaniel standing next to the person. -- The World Book The sun is farther away than it looks taking eight months and twenty seconds to arrive as light. So if you have to wait for me in the hard wrought iron chair stirring your café nero with that little spoon pretending to read the shaky script of the menu in weak light, late and filtered by glass, while your cube of brown sugar melts like last night’s dream, forgive me for I was waiting, too, for these words. © Copyright 2006-7 by Cook Communication |