Early Morning
-After Cezanne’s Woman with Coffee Pot
She sits erect on her stool
next to the table. Her cup
filled with dark brew
rests on its saucer
beside the pot.
She drops two sugar cubes
into her coffee, stirs five times,
swirls sweetness into the liquid.
The coffee cools. She’s distracted
by a sense of foreboding,
handsome face in frown,
hands resting in her lap,
ready to be clasped in prayer
if needed.
About the Author: Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, The Beatnik Cowboy, Loch Raven Review, One Art, Spank the Carp, The New Verse News, Rat’s Ass Review, Fevers of the Mind, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020.
Image Credit: Paul Cézanne “Woman With a Coffeepot” (1895) Public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia.
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