No. 212 - Sunday Morning, North Beach, San Francisco

On the corner of Chestnut and Mason

    in North Beach

        San Francisco

            under an awning

                laced with red, green, and white lights

7:32 in the morning

    Sunday

        black coffee on an outdoor table

            the size of a hubcap

                needs a few sugar packets to stay steady

Monopoly dollars litter the sidewalk

    red fives

        green twenties

            blue fifties

                yellow hundreds

Victorians hide behind telephone wires

    painted in Bay hues

        olive, lavender, slate blue

The laundromat is empty

    a newspaper machine is full of SF Chronicles

        a fire hydrant is painted white

My last sip of coffee is cold

    fifty degrees

        blue skies

            seagulls

*Composed, Edited, and Published in San Francisco, CA