1. The dawn awoke, rousing all who slept
Spilling the excess oil that congealed

2. A coffee that tells what's in my ribs
Of my fermented raisin wine and seared affliction

3. In my hand a cup whose rim you see
A full moon revealed in the darkness

4. When it sets in its mouth
Its sun remains, blushing in its cheeks

5. I poured water on it and it told
Of melted apricot or melting paper

6. The musk of night followed
By the morning's camphor, fragrant

7. As if dawn were an eye made to weep
And night a drowned Abyssinian

8. As if the stars were flowers
Tended by the wakeful, scattered at dawn