Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Enthralled (2014)

 

She fills the room

With it the moment

She walks in,

Stark, almost deadly

Attractive

In those early days

When we did not

Know it was all

A shell under which

We had to guess

Where the pea hid,

A shell she shows off

Shining in the scalding

Sunlight, where we sit,

A shell, a hidden soul

That speaks of things

Heavy with implications,

Less in what is said

Than how,

And how she looks

When she says it,

Making an entrance

The way a shy

Movie star might,

While I stare

From my Harry Potter

Haven under the stairs,

Marveling over her

Essence, and the light

She shines when she

Comes to a room,

Transfixed,

Certainly enthralled

Completely ignorant

Of who or what she was,

Even later,

When I knew better,

When I touched the flames

Under this brewing pot,

I never ceased

Being amazed.


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