Merwinesque (November)

It’s what we know on the off-chance between appointments and theatre meeting-up at the top-end these forty years or so clunk of saucer on counter without a word caffe latte to follow or winter coming in from the cold to lasagna in the back room pentola of mince sauce on low flame two or three bubbles popping at the surface all day breakfast talk supper talk or November as usual tourists and habitués all the talk to be had if we knew our neighbours if the world was different to how it is Pellegrini’s plane trees greening same old address

 

Merwinesque (November)

 

It’s what we know

on the off-chance

between appointments and theatre

meeting-up at the top-end

these forty years or so

clunk of saucer on counter

without a word

caffe latte to follow

or winter coming in from the cold

to lasagna in the back room

pentola of mince sauce

on low flame

two or three bubbles popping

at the surface all day

breakfast talk

supper talk

or November as usual

tourists and habitués

all the talk to be had

if we knew our neighbours

if the world was different

to how it is

Pellegrini’s

plane trees greening

same old address