Coffee Grinds

Melanie Ortiz-Álvarez de la Campa
Departamento de Biología
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, UPR RP

the sweet aroma of your apology,

drifting in our living room,

shapes in its mist an effigy

to the deity we made into our heirloom

a single cup, filled to the brim,

which you lay in the comfort of my hands

as we try our best to forget him;

yet this wound withstands time’s sands

perhaps these walls can contain us,

turn our solid beans into loose powder,

give us a mug where we hold forgiveness

and ground our past into newfound power.