Ivory lace
and life-bent trees
and garden sighs.
Just we two, alone,
all one.
A sun and
a moon.

Storied face,
though young.
And kisses placed
and fingers run.
Our inner space.

Soon.

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Complete archive can be found on the Poems page.

This poem was published on the Atop The Cliffs poetry journal on January 11, 2018

and WPQ magazine, Issue # 2, Fall/Winter 2019/2020

Painting: Hesperus, the Evening Star, Sacred to Lovers—Sir Joseph Noel Paton, 1857.