Barry Seiler

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Coffee Cup

Just because it's uncomplaining
do not assume a lack of bitterness.
And just because it serves
do not assume it knows its place.
Each morning you wake to the certainty
that all this was arranged for you.
Yours to hold. Yours to have.

Barry Seiler has published four books of poetry, three of them by University of Akron Press. Frozen Falls, the most recent, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He appears in the recent anthology New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust.