Flat but filled
the coffee spilt,
spread and grew to an ocre stain
on an orange kaftan.
Hard
but smelt of an afternoon spent
in concrete corners,
didn’t cost a cent.
It ran down legs
onto wooden floors,
splashed and spread against the doors.
Sticky and wet,
it left its scent
despite towels which soak away the mess.
I wash my dress in buckets of red,
till it looks the same as it always did,
though I know it will never smell as fresh
for the spilt coffee I can never forget.