Grab a cup of coffee
   now and
suck the caffeine 
   stinger
      dry
While voices
Stir the pot of
   shared regret and
      conversation's sanity

Steal the seeds
   of dream design from
Mists within the
   atmosphere
      of mental lust
And psychic trust
And contact
   launched from finger
       dust
That settles
   silent
      strong
         and
            strange
Within the shadows
Of endorphin
   rain

(c) 1996 James Oliver Smith, Jr

Note: Winner of the 1996 Calhoun Square (Minneapolis) 
Borders Bookstore poetry contest.