Words Elude
Exact words elude
Swim around in my coffee
Cooling rapidly beside paper
Determined to be more
More than blank on this day
Where ink runs and hides
For the words have interests
Elsewhere, anywhere but here
With them and the paper
Better to swim and sink
Into the coffee grounds
Than make marks of the heart
Visible for all to read
Exact words elude
Swim around in my coffee
Patterns they make just as lovely
As the ones they could make
With ink on the paper beside
My coffee cup’s forlorn nature
A sentinel on my desk in wait
For more to come soon enough
Even as exact words elude
