coffee

[incandescens]

Curiouser and curiouser, who turns up on the amla list. :)

Made chicken yakitori (or feeble Western imitation of same) this evening, and now my hands waft teriyaki sauce wherever they go, despite several scrubbings. Must try harder. Perhaps if I douse them in Lush shower gel first . . .

Having to research other people's coding queries can get quite interesting. I'm learning things I never knew before. And admittedly some I never wanted to know, but then, nobody ever said that human anatomy was meant to be beautiful when viewed from inside.

---

The Consecration Of Coffee

to Archbishop Oscar A. Romero

One day of god
drinking coffee in my patio
nothing is normal--
not the calla
with its penis of gold
nor the iris
like purple lava
a volcano spills.
I find in the depths of the cup
chasubles embroidered
with black moths
& red stains--
the sun fires
a scintillation of silver bullets
& of candles drowned--
there is blood in its shine.
I place the cup on its saucer
with a most tender care
as if it were a chalice
& say the litany:
Guatemala
Nicaragua
El Salvador
& one side of my heart
tastes white & sweet
like cane sugar
& the other,
like coffee,
bitter & black.


-- Rafael Jesús González

Comments

Here's a trick I use...

[rvdammit.livejournal.com]

when chopping chillis. Wear latex gloves. Turn them inside out when I take them off and lo no rubbing my eyes witl chilli juice.

Re: Here's a trick I use...

[incandescens]

Hm! I'll have to remember that. Thanks.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I *love* that poem about coffee.

thank you!