Friday, May 17, 2024

Meeting room (2011-12)

 


Hands and eyes,

Thin fingers

Unpolished nails

(at least on this occasion),

Rings today

None tomorrow

Glinting in sunlight

Through windows

That once belonged

To a bank,

Windows looking down

On a busy street,

Her seat faces the windows

And the sunlight

While I sit with my back,

She is never in shadow,

Her deep, dark eyes

Always gleaming,

One hand splayed

Over the pad she brought

The other grips a pen,

Her gaze

Sweeping the room

From her side of the table,

Eyes and hands,

Eyes framed in thick black lines,

Intense eye shadow,

Drawing a man in

Like a fly to a spider’s web,

Trapped in the strands

Until she chooses

To release him.


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