Karen Pierce Gonzalez

Cosmic coffee with pie

Always open, the sky bistro’s  

empyreal sea sailors

select best sublime star blends—

morning, noon, and night shades

of Sirius, Mimosa, and Rigel—

to serve up with wedges

of Andromeda pie;

crusted with crumbs

of honeyed lunar light.

 

At the counter we sip

what skilled stargazer baristas

have pressed and poured into our cups

and bite into freshly baked dessert slices,

topped with warmed dollops of sun.