Photo : taken in Essaouira, a port town in Morocco on the Atlantic coast,  December 2019




you can hear stories

you weren't even listening to

but an attentive ear

belated tears

between the porcelain trinkets

"how much for the cup?"

in the strange late

 afternoon light

then you resume your tasks

of the day and of the evening

remembering 

confidences you did not 

want to receive

*reposted  from January 2023, edited in January 2024