Monday, January 16, 2006

Muted

Lavender gray skies
Hang over rooftops
As barely budded trees
Sigh for winter
And snowflakes flitter
To aching earth
Where I sit
And wait
In pink parlor
Dreams
Dressed in emerald
Silk empress gowns
Weighing
The price of sin
And cradling
Muted snapshots
Of Errol Flynn.

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