Ballerina
Liquid dress clinging and folding
A cake decoration within the frosting
And the glaze of marzipan, the tip toeing
Arc of pixie feet in the snow
Icing of the glade catching beneath her
The music box played rapture in hearty volumes
Restraining an elfin queen beneath the fingers
A grasp upon the neck as it meets the armour
Of your delicate bones faintly wrapped in silk
Or leather, a white coated skeletal waltz
Swaying in the effervescence of a dying swan
Ankle arched heavenward with a fistful of scarlet
Reaching to envelop in fingers and hungry palms
The throbbing heart pulsating in those gloves
Bursting out a rainbow of red confection
Sugar coated, the food colouring sinks in, deep like a flood
For what is cochineal if not the blood of an armoured
Creature scurrying over each other and corpses, en pointé
Surging closer to the edge of perfection, she
Arches her back like a cat and earthbound, a faceful of dirt
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