Scott Simpson · Poetry
Coffee & Wine
Use For Kindling · source pages 45, 46
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Source page 45
Coffee & Wine
The day begins with a buzz,
ends with a blur.
Caffeine to climb the hill,
alcohol to slide back down.
But there’s a place in the middle—
an unmapped noon
where no substance presses in,
where no voice competes for air,
where all I have to be is a body
sitting still in a chair,
Source page 46
remembering how
to breathe.
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