headache & a cup of coffee

keith jarrett is fingering away
some well known melodies
all by himself

more controlled than he usually is
hesitating to take off without the bass
and the drums

perhaps waiting for them
to arrive

trying to get the guts to go to the office
and do some work this Saturday but
i´ve got a headache and
i ended up in front of the computer

my wife and young son are visiting the Mother-in-law over the weekend

i will call them later
tell them i have been working all day
i am surfing on the net and sending emails and
answering letters and writing a long poem
about the time i met chet baker in london
in 1986

making a cup of coffee from the greek coffee that
we brought home from hydra
it´s nescafé but in the greek way

tastes great
stir it into hot milk and you are
in java paradise

it started to snow again yesterday
bad news
now it´s five in the afternoon and
still light outside
i think the winter
will slowly leave now

thinking of writing a poem about just nothing
or perhaps about the things i have been doing today

i´ll think about it

we'll see





Published in Chiron Review #70, 2002 and Valley Micropress, NZ in March 2004.