DAY 87 - APHRODITE IN ST. PAUL

 

PROMPT: Combine sense and place, “include a place you’ve never been, a place you know well, and a place fictional or imaginary. For each place, appeal to different senses . . ." 

87.

APHRODITE IN ST. PAUL

Warm July night, air thick with
high-pitched buzz of cicadas.
Ancient moonlight puddles the porch floor;
she stretches bare legs from inky shadows
into the alabaster spill; he thinks of marble
Aphrodite, kneeling in her bath at the Louvre
in distant Paris; the immortal River Seine,
flowing timelessly beneath the Pont Mirabeau.
Heavy crimson scent of stargazer lilies spans 
the bridge to Wonderland. Journey from here
to there, into a world of wild imagination.

His reality the streetlight on the corner,
moths drawn to the light, looking for love.

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