with a squeeze of lemon juice

as I turn the book

words leap, delicious as 
      sugar-spice
images and faces are luminous 
      as stars
i imagine pianos 
      playing   
away in winter-iced rooms 

sun is orange-rust flower
        peeling 
sky is shimmering river, glass 
        blued    
as i drink red wine spiked 
        with rum





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