Coffee Shop Sessions

Month: January 2024

  • Fingertip Ballet

    Walking along the shadows of the night, your voice resonated outside the bar, where I stumbled in to see you on stage. The lights were low, and the focus was upon you. Mesmerized by your passion, everyone in the room was captivated— by the gift, the rawness, the vulnerabilities, so easily exposed. It was a…

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  • Beneath the Pale Moon’s Embrace

    Light flickers in the corner of your old room, upon a desk pages lay empty lit by the moon. The barren journal tugs at your shedding snakeskin,all the years falling away telling you to hold old wounds within. You grab the pen in the aim of exhaling all that’s needed to say, perhaps starting with…

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  • We’ll Figure It Out

    – a pantoum“It’ll happen soon. We’ll figure it out.” I almost believe that.The guilt and stress induce paranoia–one step away from losing everything.I almost believe thatyou have to choose where you want to be.One step away from losing. Everythingprompts a shush, a pause, a “I gotta go” because we can’t be seen or heard.You have…

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  • Let Me Read You

    Let me readyour deepest secrets,the darkest partsof you combinedwith loving tenderness.Let me    feel you        from the inside.Each page turnedis another caress,another warm handembodying every word.I smile backas our hearts claspin this unionunspoken.

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