Go Inside a Cup of Coffee

Going Inside

Go inside a cup

of coffee,

swim around in the

richness,

follow the swirls of

cream and find

a pattern to the

chaos;

visit the sweetness

pooling in the bottom,

peer out over the

edges at the

dried drops down

the side.

Balance precariously

on the rim,

then fall backward

into the warm comfort

of coffee on

a cold morning.

           - Michael P. Mazenko