Adrian Tanase

A Cinnamon Afternoon


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we became close friends

       sharing crackers, bread, and nuts,

       and occasionally cashew and pistachio

       as an exchange

       of our wooden

       and genuine love.

       we dream together

       in the afternoon,

       of a life of leisure,

       where I write books

       and it rejoices

       in my simple presence,

       forever, never changing form,

       or appearance or even age,

       so we can be friends

       and write stories side by side,

       in this sweet and continuous,

       suspended time.

      7.

      in your grandparents' house

       you look for old chairs,

       where old memories would sit

       to wait just for you.

       in a long-forgotten time,

       that big white cup of coffee

       and that fresh scent of apple pie

       are your only friends,

       in an empty wooden kitchen

       where no one has been

       for years.

       cozy and surreal

       is your day

       while looking through

       the kaleidoscope

       of times,

       where you can only see

       geometrical shapes

       and split images,

       of your golden past.

      8.

      a square painting

       of a ballerina

       is taking a break

       from a busy day

       at work

       in the silent museum

       just a few roads down

       on Kensington street.

       its wooden frame

       quiet, in its nature,

       is thinking about

       how squares are preferable

       to circles or even triangles,

       in this two dimensional world

       where it is living

       a simple and quiet life.

       no one has ever cleaned

       the dust that accumulates

       over time

       on this painting

       where the ballerina always dances

       when there’s no one around.

      9.

      where does my life start,

       and where does it end,

       only oranges or an apple

       can tell.

       they always enjoy being

       in a fruit basket,

       for as long as

       they are not desired

       by anyone

       and their sweetness

       and flavor

       spread like a silent scent

       in the morning.

       they dream

       about the times

       when they were only

       visitors in this world,

       and when no one seemed to notice

       their existence.

      10.

      the old writer

       came to visit us

       today,

       at our coffee shop

       and suddenly,

       the whole atmosphere changed.

       it is now clear to me,

       that his characters

       live a regular life,

       and pay their rent

       in universes

       where letters and symbols

       form their own time-space

       continuum;

       when he speaks,

       all of his worlds blend with ours,

       and create intricate patterns

       of reality and imagination,

       like drawings

       in a surrealist painting,

       where form always seems to

       change and transform.

       we only have here

       an espresso machine,

       where we always make free coffee

       and deliver a bit of

       scented inspiration

       for every person that visits us

       from time to time.

      11.

      a basket of fruits

       that was resting in the sunny shade,

       has fallen asleep

       to dream of the other worlds

       where the sky is orange

       and girls have violet eyes

       with a green

       fluorescent tint.

       the same basket of fruits

       is spreading a scent of forgotten lilies

       in the surreal attempt

       of becoming someday

       a fantasy writer

       that has found one of his books

       a thousand years in the future.

      12.

      remembering the times,

       when sacred geometry

       was cuddling with cookies and biscuits

       and their flavor was the only

       currency they had.

       a world that was before

       anyone can remember,

       written deep within

       in the very fabric

       of our existence

       is lingering as a ripple,

       in my emotions.

       this afternoon,

       I tried to eat

       curiously, a yellow triangle,

       wondering if it will be sweet enough

       to make me understand again

       this mundane

       world of form.

      13.

      dices and Rubix cubes

       in a surreal

       three-dimensional dance,

       are rotating slowly in a silky room,

       with tiled floors,