if only all the other lines had been as true
Posted: August 7th, 2014, 3:15 pm
I remember those days
like the curvature of her exquisite back
the way it set the mood
the streamed-line of intoxication
I could always depend on it,
when she stood in front of the mirror
let her cotton blouse slide off her shoulders
fall to the floor
it never wavered
always curled up from the base of her spine
following the same meridian
disappearing into the chiseled muscles
carved from her days rowing
that blue canoe she loved so much,
that line up her back was the one constant
I could always rely on
if only all the other lines
had been as true
like the curvature of her exquisite back
the way it set the mood
the streamed-line of intoxication
I could always depend on it,
when she stood in front of the mirror
let her cotton blouse slide off her shoulders
fall to the floor
it never wavered
always curled up from the base of her spine
following the same meridian
disappearing into the chiseled muscles
carved from her days rowing
that blue canoe she loved so much,
that line up her back was the one constant
I could always rely on
if only all the other lines
had been as true