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.
From the author of Jupiter Remembered and Until It’s Time: Embracing Life In Our Later Years comes Petals of Love: Poetry of a Woman’s Soul – a heartfelt collection spanning more than thirty-five years. Through tender reflections, these poems offer g
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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