Early Summer

Corner café Cappuccino & melancholy No one knows your name except a slender light of early summer Falling slantingly over a variety of oceans between your hands How does it find you? This ray of light, this moment, this voice Now you almost feel comfortable among strangers who are cracking some cheap joke across table You take another sip of sugared bitterness in their hollowing amusement Is this a joke? You hear someone ask You can’t laugh with them for a variety of reasons But an unusual peacefulness inside you in this early summer light A ship horn beyond horizon A Chinese girl far from home ---summer 2004