03-15-2017, 04:45 PM
I shall show and not tell this one. It's late and the brain no workie.
I presumptuously inserted whatever of my own style I wished, and I sincerely hope that you eliminate that voice and substitute your own. It'll be better that way.
Hopefully, there's something you can harvest from this.
The clatter of the chair falling
to the floor compresses and fades
into a single point in space,
a wave returning to it's source.
Streaks of mascara furtively race
up your cheeks to embrace your shining eyes.
With your knife and fork, you remove
the food from your mouth. Like a surgeon,
you reconstruct the unchewed almond-crusted salmon
with garlic crisp potatoes. I unclear
my throat so I cannot say,
“We need to talk.”
I presumptuously inserted whatever of my own style I wished, and I sincerely hope that you eliminate that voice and substitute your own. It'll be better that way.
Hopefully, there's something you can harvest from this. The clatter of the chair falling
to the floor compresses and fades
into a single point in space,
a wave returning to it's source.
Streaks of mascara furtively race
up your cheeks to embrace your shining eyes.
With your knife and fork, you remove
the food from your mouth. Like a surgeon,
you reconstruct the unchewed almond-crusted salmon
with garlic crisp potatoes. I unclear
my throat so I cannot say,
“We need to talk.”