Sunday, April 13, 2008

sidelong in the wind

the taste of hazelnut coffee is
__the ribbon wrapped around the rain
__the autumn echoes
____its first footsteps peel the leaves

softly it settles upon her shoulders
__a Persian cat curled 'round her soul
the cup gives her the taste,
__she returns lipstick
____plum red on alabaster
______porcelain and skin

and she is waiting
__thinking hard on something
__cup clutched in her hands like
____a bird that might fly
____or fall like leaves that
____rain and gravity might fell,
death their only voyage in life,
____sidelong in the wind
__fly or fall,
____she is waiting

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