Corner Coffee Shop

Listen to the back-
to-back talk between booths at Vic’s,
Sunday morning conversations,
songs of sun and lawns and new arrivals,
tiffs to smooth before the in-laws visit,
calls to neighbors just in from the 9:15
from others who’ll attend a later Mass,
a playback of last night’s game
and the story about blue
herons alighting in your backyard.

all abuzz