<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s because it’s five o’clock<\/p>\n
and I’ve been sitting still all day.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the coffee and the sweet roll.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the door pried open in me,<\/p>\n
reading Anne Sexton and Barbara Farabee.<\/p>\n
But when you come in<\/p>\n
my senses are open wide,<\/p>\n
and as we talk<\/p>\n
smiles keep taking over my face.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I am alert to the color of your hair,<\/p>\n
the tilt of your hips,<\/p>\n
the swell of your nipples,<\/p>\n
the sweeping curve of your back as you stand<\/p>\n
not quite reading the books of poetry<\/p>\n
spread over the table.<\/p>\n
There is a huge hole in your shorts<\/p>\n
and the bandanna around your neck<\/p>\n
looks as playful as I feel.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I want to say something,<\/p>\n
to show how I see you,<\/p>\n
to expose this little rush<\/p>\n
of late afternoon sunshine.<\/p>\n
Shall I tell you that long ago<\/p>\n
I wrote you a poem<\/p>\n
grown from a similar smile?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Or shall I say,<\/p>\n
more simply,<\/p>\n
that at five o’clock of a still afternoon<\/p>\n
on coffee and sweet roll<\/p>\n
and Anne Sexton and Barbara Farabee<\/p>\n
my body buzzes because you are here<\/p>\n
hip tilted<\/p>\n
eyes open wide<\/p>\n
smiling as we talk<\/p>\n
while my mind skis down your back<\/p>\n
and wonders where all the words have gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s because it’s five o’clock<\/p>\n
and I’ve been sitting still all day.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the coffee and the sweet roll.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s the door pried open in me,<\/p>\n
reading Anne Sexton and Barbara Farabee.<\/p>\n
But when you come in<\/p>\n
my senses are open wide,<\/p>\n
and as we talk<\/p>\n
smiles keep taking over my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}