DC PLACES ISSUE Evie Shockley   CAFE TRYST (18th street nw, adams morgan) sunday morning at the church of the almighty bean, brown and ground, and begged by hot water for mercy. the beaten copper ceiling blooming fleurs-de-lis, the skylights painted on. i do believe there's a factory where they press out plush chairs, the velour upholstery orange and aged, just for consumers of the cup of joe. we butter and cream our plain and sesame seed bread, commune across our holy mochas, our bibles fresh and hot off the presses, rattling as we fold back pages with inky fingertips. ella sings a solo, cd sunday morning diva, do it, sistah, hallelujah! salvation, a mugful, is close at hand.   Evie Shockley's poetry collection, a half-red sea, is forthcoming in 2006 from Carolina Wren Press, which also published her chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001). Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Brilliant Corners, Bum Rush the Page, Callaloo, and Crab Orchard Review. A Cave Canem fellow, she was awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook women writers' retreat center in 2003. Shockley teaches literature and creative writing at Rutgers University.   Published in Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 2006.