StylusLit

September 2017

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Secrets

By Gregory Piko

(after Yosano Akiko)

 

a scarlet rose

displays its bloom

before a lily

who bows, but offers

no hint of her secret

 

searching gently

for those soft hollows

my thumbs

sensitised by the dimples

in the small of your back

 

so pink

the apple blossom

at bud swell

its fragrance, about

to spill all around