Memory About a Girl
May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
A memory housed in alcoves
like jeroboams of champagne.
She’s weightless
on her ballerina toes.
Paprika, cinnamon, and ginger
with a drop of lemon dew
three savory syllables of a name
brought to my parched lips, lying
on a bed of buds for summer’s play
like two icebergs in paradise.
First published in Monongahela Issue V, 2010
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