cafe

thin steam. For us to sit facing one another, mixing laughter with food, voices once gathered around fire slowly loosen inside the mouth. When I lift the spoon, this place opens wide enough to lose one’s way in— fingertips crossing...

come li avevo la prima volta che m'hai baciata. Aria di festa, come quel giorno, forse stasera ti rivedro. (영어:I loosen my hair for you, only for you, just as it was the first time you kissed me. A festive air, like that day— perhaps...

work begins with repetition. When an action is repeated long enough, something shifts. The effort to do it well begins to loosen, and the hand moves without the mind directing every stroke. This is not passivity—it is a kind of...

there close. Like this. When someone quotes the old poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe. Like this. If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don’t try to...