An Artist's Devoted Touch


Ribbons of curling burgundy hair
Dangles before her countenance
Obscuring the auburn freckles
Splashing her cheeks, buoyant kisses
Lavished the Northwestern sun.

Shrouded behind this portiere
Of ringlets stained by a sanguine sunset
Reclines a shuttered eye, where
Four glossy lashes protrude through
Specifying the location of her vision.

The aquamarine illuminating aurora
That is the allure of her spirit,
The effeminate ethereal charm
Ensared by an artist's devoted touch.

A tenuous fragment of a smile
Emerges from the tightly woven
Flesh coloured lips, as if perceiving
She'll be fastened behind a glass pane
Confined in a dusky wooden cage,
Her glamour beguiling generations tomorrow.