Montréal Café in October

[00:16.46]Steam writes French on windows

[00:20.94]a saxophone replies;

[00:26.48]sugar clings to morning

[00:30.26]art drips from the skies

[00:36.06]Painters stir their weather

[00:39.68]on palettes full of leaves;

[00:44.39]we sip a slow apology

[00:47.46]for everything that grieves

[00:51.68]You fold the napkin northward

[00:55.14]origami of return;

[00:57.84]I underline our silence—

[01:01.77]what matters doesn’t burn

[01:07.34]Outside the alleys rustle

[01:10.59]a novel changes scene;

[01:16.14]we exit through a season

[01:19.70]and enter what we mean