She truly IS this exotic!! Sorry you missed her, lads!

MARIA


Island goddess
of our contemporary age,
Maria of Kalypso Taverna:
exotic biochemist
with a gift for hospitality

Luxuriant vineyard tresses
fall and frame her face and form;
voluptuous grapey lips
shaped and contoured -
as are her Cleopatra cat-green eyes
which glow with a soothing warmth
in the balmy darkness
that's alive with
the hissing of tree-crickets
and a gentle breeze
hushing through reeds
and the tamarisk trees

Her gracious regal bearing
is as a priestess serving
at the altar of her temple;
she moves always
with the languor and poise
of Aphrodite rising out of the sea,
a gliding white horse on the waves

Even her coffee is exotic
and never unaccompanied;
her aura lingers everywhere
like the gentle stroke of midnight
We are all made beautiful
as we partake
of her rich bounty

Yes, Maria, we will come again!
You press my change
with passionate firmness
into the palm of my hand,
knowing that the truth is
we don't really want
to ever leave!