Poet and coffee.
We don’t usually think of poetry when we think of Tikkun, but maybe we should. The “magazine dedicated to healing and transforming the world,” according to its website, just published Kenneth Fields‘s poem, “Black Coffee at Noon,” early this month here. Ken kindly allowed us to publish it on the Book Haven pages. (Thanks, Ken!)
Black Coffee at Noon
Black coffee at noon with fellow sufferers.
The bleak cups squeak in our hands. So do the chairs.
We listen, fidget, smile, occasionally weep
In this ancient ritual of bitterness, joy,
And irritation. We learn everyday the same
Text for the sermon: Our compulsion, our need
Push us apart and hold us here—the cup
Ephemeral foam, the grounds at the bottom, the drink
Inside circling the translucent vessel, our fragile
Lives jittery with the freedom of pilgrimage.
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The magazine also published Chana Bloch‘s “Night Stop” in March here, and Christian Wiman‘s “Wartime Train,” after Hungarian poet and essayist Sándor Csoóri, here. Lots of traveling poems.
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