Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Joe Grieco

Seeking Analog Comfort

 

If you invited me to your place after art class, first I’d inventory your bookshelf.

Which titles? Which authors? Which genres?

Any poetry?

What about Kenneth Patchen?

 

When you go to the stove to make coffee,

I will snoop around your bed.

What’s on your nightstand?

Do you burn incense? Any forgotten fires?

 

How would it feel to wake up next to you?

If it was raining,

And yet the sun sliced through venetian blinds,

And you were still asleep?

 

Would I get up, pull a book from your shelf,

Pour a cup of black coffee,

Take it back to bed,

And read

 

Until your alarm goes off

And the radio comes on?



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