Only winter is wild with black coffee
Black coffee which questions best
Lullabyes murmured,
mindless and lazy,
moonlight ladies, and
morning leavings
mid trees and the comfort of
Black coffee
in quiet cafes and
avenues' darkness.

Only summer is gentle
with red wildflowers,
Wildflowers raging and
full in the solstice
echo in storms
of terrible colors,
as transient newcomers in
earthly caress of
summer, so gentle with red
Wildflowers,
real women,
and wild gentleness.


--XineAnn