Things are only just getting underway with my residency at Cosmopolitan Cafe, but I have a range of ideas slowly stewing… I had my first meeting with Lyn, the owner of Cosmopolitan Cafe last week and spent an hour or so kicking back in a booth with a coffee, pen and paper. And I must say, Cosmopolitan do a mighty fine coffee, in fact they were the first cafe in Brisbane to start roasting their own beans back in 1975. So I am looking forward to many long afternoons of thinking, talking, writing and drinking (coffee/tea of course) in the beautiful 1970′s surrounds of the Cosmopolitan. Here is the first (draft) of what I hope will be many poems written in the cafe as part of the Cafe Poets Project.
Two Bodies
i. You
Candle-lit
back
to the bed
light shines
through you
shows you up for
what you are – a
curled frond
of spine
held by
that scooped-out
nest of hip
cavity whose bones
like open books
offer themselves out
in blessing
ii. Me
Words skim
over the top of you
like pigeons over city roofs
What is true
is that you have
a place in my body
A cage of bone
for you
to come home to
Beautiful Graham, beautiful!
Enjoy the Cosmo coffee… I miss that place. The Cafe Poets Project sounds like a wonderful project, hope the words continue to flow as good as the coffee.
Thanks Mel… next time you are in town we should definitely have a coffe there and talk poetry!
I’d personally like to see you wearing the staff uniform, serving a few expressos and cappucinnos as well. You can roast my beans anytime big boy.
Well you should take some time out from your watery world and join me for a tasty beverage!
Hurrah! I’m online and devouring all the wonderful wordage I’ve missed out on! This is exquisite!
A.Joy
Good to have you back Amanda!