Spare button lover
Calico cat
Coats are for cover
When worn like that
Shoulder-round splendor
Hangs to the knees
The wearer and mender
Wears it to please
Rain slick city street
Edge of the town
Well timed city beat
Drops run sewer-bound
Apple blossom bough
Crumbling gifts
Gloved receiver now
Lifts for a whiff
Black gloved fingers trot
Marble- the bar
Between men deep in thought
And cold reservoir
Black booted steps tread
Lakeside pathway
Puddles happily fed
By the melting day
And lazily round
Flick calico eyes
Pocket gloves, push them down
She's in for a surprise..
Scarves and up-do's
Trunk full of clothes
Little white shoes
For her little white toes
That sink in the puddles
Click over stone
Mottled and muddled
And walking alone.
Quiet and fox-nosed
Hands folded (they're cold)
Archways on water, posed
Pray the bridges will hold
Forever they'll trope
Through this pale citadel
Somewhere in Europe
Envelope, inkwell
Bare legs and white gloves
White coat round the waist
Belt buckle she tugs
Land approaching with haste
Off the bridge she steps
Marigold-lipped, her sigh
Pins and needles digress
Taxi? Raining sky
Wind works strands fair
Lips purse and blow
Realign her hair-
Down the road.. a shadow?
As spare buttons do
He holds out his hand.
Little white shoes
Start to run at command.
Marigold-lips
Breaking open in joy-
Alleyway dips
All part of his ploy
And rain tumbles down
The lane she careens
Laughter, fingers found
Outstretched. Black coat seams
Caught in her white fist
To lover, love leaps
His hands strong, his wrists
Through lovers love seeps
Through coats like the rain
She's lifted so far
The well-timed refrain
Aloft in his arms
Been weeks and been months
Time's not waterproof
And it melts away once
Gutters fill, splash the roofs
Run down the bridge
Soaking white shoes
Cold on closed eyelids
Buttons and blues
Oh sweet calico
Lowers his love
Kiss her rightly so
This city tastes of
Her marigold pleasure
Content and divine
Her spare button treasure
Untarnished by time
Hands and lips clasping
And the rain grey
Bridges collapsing
Tumble down day
Breath comes in bouquets
Long-lasting, perfumed
Statuesque embrace
Lovers marooned
In the warmth of the other
Each other's sleeves
Each other's shudders
And pockets and decrees
So it shall rain forever
In that leap, in that kiss
In that moment, endeavor
In that black and white bliss.
Now, white gloves relax
Shoulders shiver twice
Pull apart but not back
Keeping close and precise
Wondering gaze
Return to the world
Spring-shower haze
Gloved fingers curled
Cherish her forehead
Temple, rosé cheek
How she adores when
His fingertips peek
About the corner
Of her round little ear
Could she be warmer
His marigold-dear
Standing on tiptoes-
Oh give us one more!
Again his smile grows
And just one more before
She traces her way
Down the black collar coat
He gives her skirt a shake
Upon breezes it floats
The sun will come anew
But they will be gone.
Down the stone avenue
Leaving his letters
Her x's and o's
(Hand in hand) to lie sodden awaiting the dawn.
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