Coffee Lyric

Narwhals on Carthaginian sands

Lay their mottled heads on virgins' laps,

Whalebone corsets trap

Them for apothecary hands.

Unicorns stamping seas to talc

Bleed a quickening gauze of claret

When harpoons ferret

Them for manes of ambergris silk.

Night vision drops nebulous hints,

Fogs emulate webs in cathedrals,

And its very droll

Observing moccasined ghosts hunt.

©1977 WALTER OLLER

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