the urgency

to cultivate

what feeds the soul

*

cool blue gloom

as day breaks

over Arlington

*

cage anarchy

within a frame

of beat & breath & pause

*

will clouds prevail

this winter day

or skies be blinding white

*

slumped in a bench

the form of a friend

whom I don't recognise

*

O the human-

ising contact

of the coffee-shop!