Sunday, May 15, 2011

To Where She Sleeps in the Bronx

Here, a good wish that her world welcome her
to its too-long-gone-from her sweet bosom
Monday, the sixteenth of May, Two Thousand
Eleven. Here, my fingers to caress,
my lips to kiss, my eyes to memorize
all your vibrant soul, Leila Shulamit.

(May 15, 2011)

copyright 2011 by Floyce Alexander

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