This Poem was Submitted By: Stephen M Gallagher On Date: 2001-06-16 17:43:46 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Eurydice

She dreams a land heavy with  glaciers and quilted in tundra. The girl whose blouse you once  reached inside only to find  sapphires sewn into the lining. Glance over the fire escape. She lies there shivering,  her throat coated in ice,  paint chips under her nails, the numbers on her forearm bleeding onto  the pavement like watercolor pastels. What she left behind:   Whispers of the perfume she wore in school.   Patent leather shoes filled to the heel  with rosary beads and cocaine. Snowflakes made of construction paper,  leading to a music box where red velvet spills  the music of Prokofiev. You’ll find her looking for her jewels in the  sidewalk cracks. Unaware they are cold in your pocket.

Copyright © June 2001 Stephen M Gallagher


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