In
Coffee Veritas
I
drink coffee, hot & thick,
from
a cup I took from a
hotel
in Slovenia
and
admire the shapes
of
the clouds
through
the vast window
Somewhere
else
in
the distance
a
bell is ringing from a tower
on
a lush hill
announcing
the arrival
of
the end of one
more
day of our lives
Vicissitude
always
best to remain
indifferent
because
the sun
will
descend
the
curtain will close
And
I will continue to be
astonished
by this life
in
this body and pause
for
as many sunsets
as
I am given
-
XX-XI-XX &
XXIII-XI-XX, Casteau
Michael Adubato
Michael Adubato was born and raised in New Jersey but moved across the ocean and settled in Belgium, mainly because the beer and soccer are better. When he’s not at a stadium watching a game, he’s thinking about where to go for the next game. He also writes about those games for the website Yanks Abroad when the poems aren’t flowing. His first book of poetry is also in the works. He has been previously published in Ariel Chart.
Those last two lines are beautiful.
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