Coffee and a brown brush stroke

                         For Mary, who loves to travel


The Internet said, “coffee and caffeine may not be so bad for you after all”
What relief, and on such authority no less
Surprising Food Facts by Sara Ryba, R.D., C.D.N., and Janine Mojica
Bless them who ever they may be

And now on to the caffeine-induced brush stroke
It is there for you to see, grainy and somewhat brutal
in a very distinctive way

It marks a route from a foggy November Paris street (which
might eventually lead to Père Lachaise)
to that sanctuary in Abyssinia where the Ark of the Covenant is kept

Reporters not allowed in
The ark taken from Jerusalem by Solomon's son with the queen of Sheba
about 3000 years ago

That ark which kills with strokes of lightning if looked at