Coffee and Crumbs: Poetry and photography

Coffee and Crumbs

After four days without coffee I made three mugs.

Four tablespoons of ground coffee,

six cups of water,

push the button.

Remembering the bag of bird seed bought yesterday

I fill a cup with seed and dried bread crumbs

to sprinkle in the yard.

A raven lands before I sit down inside,

a band of half-wild ducks arrive like a scourge of vacuum cleaners.

The seed and crumbs are gone

before the first mug is poured.

Hurry out with another cup of seed,

pour it in the grass,

hurry in,

fill a mug with coffee,

sit down,

sip carefully,

enjoy the taste with toast and butter,

watch through the window with a smile

as the horde of ducks

make the seed vanish before my eyes.

poetry and photography by David H. Roche

(C) 2018