Poem at Donna's request

[chimericpeloria]

This has been a favorite of mine for a long time.  It's a moment in time, 16 lines packed full of the middle of a story.

Number 8

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It was a face which darkness could kill
                                          in an instant
        a face as easily hurt
                            by laughter or light

'We think differently at night'
                                          she told me once
       lying back languidly

And she would quote Cocteau

'I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
                                        'whom I am constantly shocking'

Then she would smile and look away
                light a cigarette for me
                                        sigh and rise

and stretch
                her sweet anatomy

let fall a stocking