No 3: A CAPPUCCINO?

PHOTO BY LUCIA AUERBACH

KATIE KERN

I hear the symphony 

The calm ballad, 

The soft piano

playing through the speakers

The two friends in their mid twenties gossip about the friend who couldn’t be there

The 30 year old man with a scarf wears glasses taking up his face while working on his computer

A young teenager comes in alone with cash that her mom gave her to buy a decaffeinated sweet drink

An artist with beaded necklaces sits quietly on the thing closest to a couch, slowly sipping their cappuccino 

The 50 year old professor grades papers on one of the high chairs drinking a chamomile tea

The 18 year olds come in asking for chais with a niche milk, wearing baggy jeans

I have been dreaming of coffee shops recently, longing to be sitting inside of one

Beauty is quietly embedded in the normal experiences we never seized to appreciate

Normalcy has now become our fantasy