Find enough faith for the day in the radio
there’s hot coffee enough on the stove upstairs
light the first pipe of the day, a pinch of tobacco
to wash back the slug of coffee, push back
the cool morning, a tease that spring is fading
the summer yard mowers have already attacked
wanting to be home and looking for ways
to be away, the body noisy from needing
another 3000 mile check up, another rusty joint
replaced and still must go must go must go must
but this morning
enjoy the taste of coffee and tobacco
commodities for which we are grateful
in these days
when we must remind ourselves
we have been abandoned
by the faiths our grandmothers held to
and we must make our own peace
with the witch hidden by the dark eastern woods.

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