J.V. Cunningham: Coffee
When I awoke with cold
And looked for you, my dear,
ANd the dusk inward rolled,
Not light or dark, but drear,Unabsolute, unshaped,
That no glass can oppose,
I fled not to escape
Myself, but to transpose.I have so often fled
Wherever I could drink
Dark coffee and there read
More than a man would thinkThat I say I waste time
For contemplation’s sake:
In an unencumbered clime
Minute inductions wake,Insight flows in my pen.
I know not fear nor haste.
Time is my own again.
I waste it for the waste.
This is the third time I posted a poem by J.V. Cunningham on this blog, and it bears repeating: Cunningham is one of last century’s best American poets, he’s severely underrated, and The Poems of J.V. Cunningham, edited by TImothy Steele, is highly, highly recommended.
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