What can you see in tiny steaming cups of mocha?
[…] shade
goes straight down, espresso
dense with intent […]
From “Shade” by Jan Zwicky collected in Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
I like the arrangement here producing endwords — shade, espresso, intent — they have their own depth. Zwicky has lodged an imagist poem in the heart of a larger piece like a small cup itself with provoking aroma.
And so for day 928
28.06.2009