Seven Cups of Coffee
Each page is made of Archival Arches watercolor paper hand-dyed with coffee and type typeset with a typewriter. It is bound with a Japanese stab binding style binding using book-binding string also dyed with coffee. The book band was created using Coffee sleeves from the local coffee shop around which the poem inside the book takes place. The title is blind embossed onto the cover page using a letter-press. The entire book was created by hand and was created in an addition of only one.
Seven Cups of Coffee by Matt Garrett:
a cup of coffee the morning after a heartbreak dusted with snow.
the second cup of coffee was made using a french press
the beans were ground by hand, and the steep was timed perfectly.
the beans were ground by hand, and the steep was timed perfectly.
although it was delicately made, it tasted bland, like any old cup of
coffee.
coffee.
the third cup of coffee was left cold on a bedside table.
addled with cream and sugar, the fourth cup of coffee was consumed
while thoughts of lovers embrace poured and
swirled
through the cold night air before settling between the stars.
while thoughts of lovers embrace poured and
swirled
through the cold night air before settling between the stars.
the fifth cup tasted sour.
the sixth cup of coffee came after an important decision about a significant person.
it followed quiet contemplation and a phone call with parents.
it followed quiet contemplation and a phone call with parents.
it preceded two bodies sitting on opposite sides of a familiar room.
the coffee was just o.k.
the coffee was just o.k.
with skin like fire and bones like ice
the seventh cup of coffee came and went as time contoured itselfand dragged itself through a metaphysical bend.
