Showing posts with label Italian coffee pot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian coffee pot. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2020

Coffee

Of course the coffee nodule
is neither cherry nor berry,
just as you are neither you nor

you before "you" hold the ceramic
cup in that sacred way and weigh
it gratefully, and wait for your hands

to say when the temperature
of the darkness
will love your tongue and mouth

best. You sip and smell
simultaneously. You are soothed.
You are less dim. The sun

rises just above the blue rim
of your stupor. Shapes of
thought become visible,

work becomes viable,
wants become focused.
O thank you Arabia,

thank you Ethiopia,
thank you Sudan and South
America, Indonesia . . .

Such chants continue
silently in your mind,
which small sips of shade

have clarified. Your heart
stumbles into a pace
that brings awareness

to your brain in soft
brown sacks. You begin to flirt
with thought, consider

sociability, tolerate noise,
nearly nod Yes to  life.
You want to tell coffee again

that you love it, but you’re not
quite ready to speak,
and anyway coffee knows.

coffee knows, knows what you need.


hans ostrom 2020

Monday, October 9, 2017

Italian Coffee Pot

Caffeine priest in a silver
cassock. Octagonal alchemist.
Silver bird gargling dark steam.

It is in the pantheon of small,
essential pots that lead us
kindly into our daily labors.

It is the beloved mayor of the
stove. It is a three-part harmony
of form and function.



hans ostrom 2017