Veronica

Summer débutante’s gown

grown shy

blushing falls

thrilling leaf by burnishing leaf

spinning through Constables’ light

grace-full arms:

bare/baring/embarrassed

brace/bracing/embrace

November.

~ by bonniemcclellan on November 2, 2011.

Posted in Art and Observation, Life In Italy, Poetry and Translation
Tags: , , ,

2 Responses to “Veronica”

  1. The wordplay is incantatory. One sound calls for the next and the the next one is summoned thereafter. I dug this one.

    Octavio Solis said this on November 16, 2011 at 7:41 pm | Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

 
%d bloggers like this: