This is, probably, my most famous poem, though no thanks to me. I wrote this in August of 2004 and, like many of my poems, didn’t do much with it. Sure, I read it at some poetry readings and such, and shared it with friends, and then forgot about it. It didn’t really take off until I read it to my friend Amy Krog, who liked it so much that she asked for a copy, and who then proceeded to share it with every barista she ever met (or so it seemed), and being that she was a traveling, cafe-going sort of girl, she met a lot of baristas.<\/p>\n
It’s been quite a few years, now, and I doubt that Amy still shares this with baristas (though I’m sure she still loiters at the cafes). Anyway, none of those baristas ever met me, so I guess it’s a case of the poem being much more famous than its author. It’s a pretty simple little thing, but I like it, anyway, even after all these years.<\/p>\n
Your hair-fling bewitchment
\nbeguiles me,
\nmuse of hazelnut latt\u00e9 eyes and
\na whipped-cream smile;
\nyour kisses would satisfy
\nthe most ambitious sweet-tooth.
\nThat’s my heart you’re steaming to foam,
\nmy mind you excite with your double-caffeinated flair.
\nYour siren’s song has me shipwrecked
\non a dry-roast wasteland.
\nI raise my mocha sails and set out
\ninto the foaming cappucino seas;
\nI\u2019ll be back again
\nin the java-toothed sunrise.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is, probably, my most famous poem, though no thanks to me. I wrote this in August of 2004 and, like many of my poems, didn’t do much with it. Sure, I read it at some poetry readings and such, and shared it with friends, and then forgot about it. It didn’t really take off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}