Poem
Karen Press
Wednesday morning in the Café Caprice
Wednesday morning in the Café Caprice
Wednesday morning in the Café Caprice
There’s a sledge hammer going steadilyin the upper left corner of the roof.
A roar of steam from the cappuccino jet.
A rotary machine drying itself
or the air or something else helpless and silent.
Someone knocking espresso bricks out of their mould
against the side of a bin, metal on metal.
Dean Martin crooning his love
to a thousand violins.
The garbage van compacting the street’s refuse
in four dimensions of decibels.
Teaspoons clattering onto saucers
A fly coughing and coughing on my arm.
Across the road the sea in its own silent movie
throwing up waves, catching them in its blue arms.
© 2002, Karen Press
From: The Canary’s Songbook
Publisher: Carcanet (UK),
From: The Canary’s Songbook
Publisher: Carcanet (UK),
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Wednesday morning in the Café Caprice
There’s a sledge hammer going steadilyin the upper left corner of the roof.
A roar of steam from the cappuccino jet.
A rotary machine drying itself
or the air or something else helpless and silent.
Someone knocking espresso bricks out of their mould
against the side of a bin, metal on metal.
Dean Martin crooning his love
to a thousand violins.
The garbage van compacting the street’s refuse
in four dimensions of decibels.
Teaspoons clattering onto saucers
A fly coughing and coughing on my arm.
Across the road the sea in its own silent movie
throwing up waves, catching them in its blue arms.
From: The Canary’s Songbook
Wednesday morning in the Café Caprice
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