Coq Roti

            for Britt Ronnegren

   each word

recreates that table   window    chair    and door

     and there are other objects with more of

our emotion

                        the candles

                       those goblets

                   the face of that clown

        at Coq Roti

       steak au poivre

       and a wager about brandy

      that lost one crown

our eyes own everything

love your eyes

which bring glimpses of north light

need the north light

             of your eyes

like a painter

       painting

                 happily

         © Dick Russell, 2013