Monday, 6 December 2010
at 16:22 | 0 comments | gustafson
lorelei café
i lounged at the kaffeehaus–
identical to that fake german
café from epcot, if the huge
manmade lake was the rhine
i dunked a stale berliner in
my cappuccino and flipped
through the pages of my
fresh faced german diary,
purchased in a gift shop
for impulsive americans.
i traced the phrase
"übung macht den meister"*
etched along the binding
in flawless cursive script
the pastry crumbled and
oozed on a blank page.
three years later,
it remains, a lone
journal entry
stephanie gustafson (St. Paul, MN, 1988)
* Editor's note: "practice makes the master"
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