Woman Gives Birth at Café,
Refuses to Leave until Latte Finished
There was a man crying, walking his dog,
and a woman drove by
on a flat tire.
They brought coffee to the tables
in large glasses on white saucers.
There’d be long silver spoons
with which to stir in strong
dark espresso
floating in layers in the steamed milk.
Don’t forget
the girl with long blond hair,
fiddling with her key in a car door
outside, saying,
“Oh! This isn’t even my car!”
And yes, having conversations about
catching a man, seated in this same café
when you were young, not pregnant,
not looking down the road to life very far.
Welcome!
The poems in this beautifully bound book are a result of over twenty years of observations. Observations of the world around us and on the telecommunications network. All of the hate, love, heroism, disasters, and those who help.
Beautif
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
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