Erren Geraud Kelly’s most recent poem to appear here was The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree (November 2014).

Coffeehouse Poem #47
By Erren Geraud Kelly

a girl sleeps in a chair
across from me as i write
this
earlier, she sat on a bench
outside starbucks
unremarkable except for red hair
which covered her face like a
shroud
she is proof, even the ordinary
can become extraordinary
she sits across from me
giving herself to dreams
as latin jazz plays on my
headphones
maybe i should pick her up
and take her to seville
we could share a table
at a sidewalk cafe
i would toast her as a jazz band
plays in the background
whenever she wakes up
her face will be like the mona lisa
and her expression will be another
dream given to the day