Coffee Break

Ms. Haiku

Coffee Break

I showed her a photograph.

She’ll be four years this May.
I can’t imagine you pregnant.
You were never interested.
He still likes his job in the City.
The new one? The one in the historic building?
That same one; six years already.

I comment on mothering, the time spent on wishes.
She mentions her newest friend, her newest story,
and I need to leave in less than 20 minutes.

It’s amazing what happens in so few years.
Time moves like fireworks when it would drop just suddenly.

She’s lost something underneath her skin.
The more I look at her shoulders the more she faces away.
At another table 3 college students all on cell phones
share tonight’s agenda as plans unfold.

I stare at her eyes less interested in their fading.

Yes changes, the changes; it’s as if I’m just meeting you.



It would look visually better if I knew how to tab. Anyone know how to tab in here?

justam

What was she missing under her skin? You made me curious!!

Ms. Haiku

Weight. She lost weight, but she looked too thin. You know how you just meet someone you haven't met in a long time, and usually there's a "You look great!" or something along those lines. Well, the 1st person couldn't say that because her friend from a former time didn't look healthy. Thanks for raising that question. I was a little stuck in that section, and now I know why . . . it needed a little explaining. Down the road this poem will change to add more clarity.

Ms. Haiku

Oh, and by the way, the reason I mention the shoulders right afterwards is that when I think people are too thin it's because I can see the horizontal bone that is near the neck, not the shoulder blades but that other bone. I guess it's called the shoulder bone? I saw a photograph of Heather Mills McCarthy while that divorce news was going on, and I saw those shoulder bones in the photograph, and I thought she was too thin.

justam

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Weight. She lost weight, but she looked too thin. You know how you just meet someone you haven't met in a long time, and usually there's a "You look great!" or something along those lines. Well, the 1st person couldn't say that because her friend from a former time didn't look healthy. Thanks for raising that question. I was a little stuck in that section, and now I know why . . . it needed a little explaining. Down the road this poem will change to add more clarity.

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Oh, and by the way, the reason I mention the shoulders right afterwards is that when I think people are too thin it's because I can see the horizontal bone that is near the neck, not the shoulder blades but that other bone. I guess it's called the shoulder bone? I saw a photograph of Heather Mills McCarthy while that divorce news was going on, and I saw those shoulder bones in the photograph, and I thought she was too thin.

Oh thanks!!

I know what you mean about certain body parts making you notice that they are too thin. I feel that way sometimes when women look like concentration camp victims around the stomach area. The fragility kind of makes me feel ill...