Last Diner in the Village by Johanna Antonia Zomers

How lovely, to be the one who

brings coffee,

singing morning greetings

into the village street each time

the belled door swings inward.

Slapping the menu

crisply on the arborite,

fluting a custard pie

with whipped cream clouds.

Running a cloth over

window glass reflecting

the quiet street and god’s

green universe, a monk

intent on humble service.

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Johanna Antonia Zomers is a playwright with Stone Fence Theatre and writes a weekly column for a Canadian newspaper. Her first novel “When the Light Enters” was published with Pastora de la Vega Press. She is at work on a sequel and a collection of essays. She currently lives on a farm in the Donegal Settlement in Ontario and hopes to return to spending creative winters in Spain and Ireland