I don’t know much of Danusha Laméris’s work, but this poem keeps appearing along my path and I love it more each time I encounter it. It’s a poem so filled with pre-pandemic images that speaks so beautifully to what we need—and miss—in these pandemic times. Copies of it disappeared from the box quickly.
“We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back.”
Side note: I like how the poem ends with, “I like your hat” and the photo captured me in my red hat reflected in the box’s plexiglass.