I go out for coffee
to see the display.
A dozen glass cases
Faces polished,
gleaming wares-
People eating their gaze
to divide the public air.
You must be polite when sharing space.
Beware of sliding eyes
too slow, too fast, sideways.
I come to these places
to be seen
to find coy reservation
But mostly I come
to steep ***
And brew tension
This my coffeeshop menagerie
Where I wish to be the voyuer
And you the view.
Perhaps it is the caffeine
but I feel a quickening,
a fogging of thought
sensing you there.
So I'll test my tea
boost immunity,
Break glaze my glass shield,
burn and remember
I can't disappear.
Yours-
an earnest stare
refracting
my glass-eyed fear.
Jan 21, 2012
Jan 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM UTC
I go out for coffee
to see the display.
A dozen glass cases
Faces polished,
gleaming wares-
People eating their gaze
to divide the public air.
You must be polite when sharing space.
Beware of sliding eyes
too slow, too fast, sideways.
I come to these places
to be seen
to find coy reservation
But mostly I come
to steep ***
And brew tension
This my coffeeshop menagerie
Where I wish to be the voyuer
And you the view.
Perhaps it is the caffeine
but I feel a quickening,
a fogging of thought
sensing you there.
So I'll test my tea
boost immunity,
Break glaze my glass shield,
burn and remember
I can't disappear.
Yours-
an earnest stare
refracting
my glass-eyed fear.
