Drawing by Judith Wolfe
Arun Gaur

Poem


      HOLDING A TRESS

      The fingers of this woman are fine;
      they hold a curled tress
      her arms crossed over her breast.

      She lies like a slowly drowning woman
      in a little stream
      of a Skakespeare's play,
      with overhead shrubs of shedding flowers;
      -Millais painter just like that-

      but she is not mad.

      Perhaps she is already dead.

      Drops from her lover's eyes
      fall like stars.

      His curls are wet with ghostly dew.


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