Raven-black hair drapes over my face
Amber eyes speak so very clearly
Of passions somewhere yearning, desperate to be expressed,
Hidden deep someplace, barely burning beneath the sweet façade
The press of strawberry-tinted lips
Under a golden body, near
Deliver kisses warm and wetter
Kisses alive, better to let them drown me instead

The girl in her holiday kimono
Smiles at her own sensibilities

[May 25, 1997 & August 01, 1998]