COSTA CAIRO

Couples oblivious

Of excessive light

Stir each other’s eyes

With forbidden spoons.

A young man,

Spreads sugar,

Mines diamonds,

Fingers dancing over

An aching sweetness.

Beside him, the eloquence
of an empty chair.

Girls raise their

Mobile phones to snap

 Each other’s laughter.

 Later, cast out

 By outworn love

And life’s drab habit

They’ll recall

The froth of a cappuccino.

In a corner,  a woman

Cradles  a bag of bananas,

Faces the window.

Stares into Cairo’s

Hoarse twilight

Her Americano forgotten,

A lipstick stain

Sealing the rim.

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