In waters it’s starting, Phoenix Best Western
You were floating in the Jacuzzi, bottle of wine lightly held in your hand
An afterthought of can, you spilled four drops onto the top of the water
I watched it turn from deep red to pink & then disappear
Right here, between us & I traced my initials in it with [...]
Beware a woman wearing jeans with a dead flower on her pocket
She schemes in black & white but wants colored things
Wears a sailor’s traditional hat on weekends but never roughed the sea
It is for these reasons she smells mostly like Whole Foods
Speaks French as a second language & signs her name with a heart above [...]
Her pink capri pants
Like strawberry icing with trick candles
Sparkle lit by my automatic eyes while walking
Through the Westminster mall with her Mom
Her pink capri pants
Told me she had a charm bracelet from her best friend
In her top drawer, in the oak dresser that
Her father gave her for her 15th birthday
Her pink capri pants
Held tight while [...]
Starting in the middle of a lingering late night crowd out loud,
there she was wearing a fire engine red dress,
that clung to her like air made men stare,
made them trip over their feet & the sidewalks.
Fire engine red loud like a clanging bell,
made everything swell crossing the boardwalk
out at Salt Creek Beach, minding the waves,
she [...]
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