Two Poems - For A Sunday Afternoon

!±8± Two Poems - For A Sunday Afternoon

1) The Sun, and Coffee at Starbucks

The sun has no door today-but it's looking for one;

its face is in the window-slightly, it has white bright

knuckles this afternoon-

It drags its Sunday rays along the profile of my face.

The trees outside, from where I sit, across from me

through the window,

are porky-pine green, and beyond those, are peach

colored balconies.

I'm at 'Starbucks,' Benavides: the walls have long

stretched out pictures, of a weird coffee pot,

tables, circles, coffee cups, and musical things, things

like horns and notes, and so forth...!

My latte is strong, I like it like that, and I sip on it,

while reading: Shelley, Dylan Thomas, and Plath.

There are no clouds today in Lima, just mist from the

ocean, mixed into the atmosphere, a lazy

lazy mist at that; a stiff and thick kind of mist, like

soup-with slow moving feet, for I can see patches

of blue beyond it, and the sun, the sun I so love

seeping through a porthole or two, still looking for

that door.

#2362 4-27-2008

2) Intrusion
(Poetic Prose, and Confessional Poetry)

When I was a young man, I was likened to terrified fish, an alcoholic that is what I was back then, not how I wanted to be. It is forty-years now. I know now I was better off with no father, thus, I had to row my way to where I am today, through a generation of vipers. Mother was always fearful I'd become nothing more than driftwood, but thick salt kept me up, and I didn't know (floating just above my neck). My mother and brother were happy (perhaps the only ones) when I somehow slipped through the keyhole and finally opened the shut door and joined the opposite continents. A late bloomer you might say.

#2363 (4-27-2008)

Two Poems - For A Sunday Afternoon

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