I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness-- Jeremiah 3:3

Sunday, March 7, 2010

GEISHA ON THE WALL



Today

She faces the wall

Laced with tiers

Of mingling litanies:

Morning murmurs,

Smoke-drenched throaty cries,

Salty cold drops.


The wall is hers,

A mirror where she wipes

The blanched geisha aside

And picks up the faint

Traces again

Of that pale

Brown silhouette

By the old morning crib.

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