How do you take it?

I listen to the complexities

traded back and forth

across gift cards, CDs,

sustainable energy bars,

past the case filled with

pastries, muffins, cakes

and tortes, accompanied

by paroxysms of milk

steamed and coffee

expressed, permeated

by omnipresent and

omnipotent smells, and

then I say, simply, and

in a clear voice,

mashing English between

two slices of Italian:

Venti Non-Fat Latte.

Seth Haines at TweetSpeak Poetry has a poetry prompt – how do you take you coffee? It’s coffee and tea month at TweetSpeak.

And today is also Poetry at Work Day. You can check out this cool infographic developed by TweetSpeak’s own Lyla Lindquist and re-published by Huffington Post.

Thos poem is also submitted to Open Link Night at dVersePoets. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time today.

Photograph by Vera Kratochvil via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.