after Nico Wilkinson<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When my partner\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n greets the morning with coffee<\/span><\/p>\n he does so with gentle precision.<\/span><\/p>\n He grips with fingertips,<\/span><\/p>\n never palms,<\/span><\/p>\n does not want to overwhelm<\/span><\/p>\n what is already warmed for him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My partner worships<\/span><\/p>\n at the altar of the espresso machine<\/span><\/p>\n having tuned it so carefully\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n to fit his needs.<\/span><\/p>\n He knows exactly\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n the impact caffeine will have<\/span><\/p>\n he\u2019s made sure of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But suddenly, he\u2019s weaning off coffee,<\/span><\/p>\n says it is making him jittery,<\/span><\/p>\n unable to think straight.<\/span><\/p>\n I wonder if he thinks about\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n how many other people\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n are drinking coffee, <\/span>his<\/span><\/i> coffee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Cannot cleanse it from his mind<\/span><\/p>\n despite the bag locked in the cabinet\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n meant only for our own tastebuds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My partner, he is done with coffee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Will not meditate through\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n the practice of making anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n He is done participating<\/span><\/p>\n in the morning give and take<\/span><\/p>\n as we decide who has the energy to give.<\/span><\/p>\n Done with acts of service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He is left unbothered<\/span><\/p>\n that my love for coffee remains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How I started to cherish it again<\/span><\/p>\n in mugs I pulled from his cabinets,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n rather, in the pieces\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I pulled from his view.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My partner does not want coffee anymore<\/span><\/p>\n but I will love it hard enough, now<\/span><\/p>\n it will need nothing else.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In which I replace myself with coffee after Nico Wilkinson When my partner\u00a0 greets the morning with coffee he does so with gentle precision. He grips with fingertips, never palms, does not want to overwhelm what is already warmed for him.\u00a0 My partner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142885,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142875\/revisions\/142885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}