Still Life With Chocolates

Mike Essig
The Coffeelicious
Published in
1 min readApr 11, 2017
Mid-Day

They face each other
upon a featherbed.
A man and a woman.
She wears pink silk
and French perfume.
He only wears a smile.
They are feasting
upon German chocolates.
Man, woman, chocolates.
A perfect portrait
of that instant before
everything becomes
something else.

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Mike Essig
The Coffeelicious

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.