Dorothy On Her Deathbed

Her diminished and shading features
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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