Saturday, August 22, 2009

Noirish

The killers couldn’t see us, somehow.
We hid low, and they looked over us,
Their pistols dark in the pastel light.

I remember your breath like bread,
Yeasty and hot in our hiding place.
Your breasts bracketed my arm.

Eventually they went away.
Still we lay, stricken hearts loping
To rejoin our redeemed lives.

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