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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
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