Scenic Loop Cafe

Scenic Loop Cafe

It was as I would have written it ten years ago:

you laughing, at gentle peace beside me with

the wind outside and the arched cut-limestone doorways

of where you would have had your rehearsal dinner,

black night held back by the sagging strands of bulbs.

You were reclaiming it, even as you gawked silently

at menu prices and ordered anyway the crab cakes.

Reclaiming it, at 10.99 for four and 12.99 for six.

We ordered beer and drank and ate their complimentary

queso and marveled at what had just recently between us

dissipated. No longer did the gentle curve of your again-short

hair to your chin demand my attention. No longer did the mole

just the left of your mouth tent within me that

airy circus of desire. No more did the curve of your stomach,

anchored by that silver belt-buckle we bought together,

suggest to me that place within I had wanted our children to start.

--RFRY, added 09 Jun 06, written Fall/Winter 2005

Scenic Loop Cafe exists in only one version. Noah talked about it some when I posted it to my blog.