FALL/ WINTER 2012

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Lynn Carroll Cohen

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ

Another summer
at the Cornelia Street Café
where we sipped chilled wine
layered time
between the hors d’oeuvres
and the sidewalk art shows
enraptured by wide-eyed girls
and passing pedigreed pups  

Inside the poet read
seated and trembling
scotch at one side
a New Yorker nearby  

You switched seats
and became so close
I could taste your poetry
brush your knee
and feel your hand climbing mine.  

I know this was real
because we were friends;
then enemies, and
now I barely recognize your
jowls and deep lines;
the bald spots and stooped posture

that are the present.

                  


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