a flicker of light

She tasted like cloves and cinnamon, the last drag on a cigarette, and the opening notes to a song I’d lost to my youth.

She was iridescent and I couldn’t put her out, not even in my dreams.

3 thoughts on “a flicker of light”

  1. With the flutter of angel’s wings,
    and the whisper of the willow tree,
    she alit upon the rafters of your soul,
    vaulted and bare.

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