A Friend Descends the Steps of the High Museum of Art

Her skin, pale and fragile
as bone china
protected by a heart
inviolable, gilded threads
weft and warp cloth-of-gold
that flys pennoned from her
shoulders, red hair burning
brighter as she competes
with the setting sun
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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