poem

May 29, 2012 23:17

5/29/12
by Caroline Stine

Her hands were dusty with regret
covered in the carefully accrued grime
of last-calls and missed kisses
of men half-claimed
and desires half-retrieved.

Is it fear or common sense which drives her?
Caution or the seduction of the chasm's edge?

desire, poetry

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