over café au lait
open-throated laughter
and a perfume you can taste
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
cicada afternoon –
in the sanctuary’s coolness
stained-glass parables
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
suddenly
(purple freckles on her lavender-clad breasts)
a shower
* Larry Kimmel is a US poet and writer of both
haikai and mainstream forms. This story was first published in Bottle Rockets in 2006. It also appears in Larry's new collection The Piercing Blue of Sirius which is currently being reviewed by IS&T.
