By Yuu Ikeda

Morning coffee
emits fragrance of new dawn

My skin
mixes with the fragrance,
and
plays a mellow and
sugary day

This warmth is only mine
This calmness is only mine

To feel the beginning of a day,
my skin wants morning coffee,
my skin wants fragrance of new dawn

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Yuu Ikeda is a Japan based poet.
She loves writing, drawing,
and reading mystery novels.
She writes poetry on her website.
Her published poems are
“On the Bed” in <Nymphs>,
“Pressure” in <Selcouth Station Press>,
“The Mirror That I Broke” in <vulnerary magazine>,
and more.
Her Twitter and Instagram.