Buds in bullet cases Rat-a-tat summer showers Fire powder pinks at impregnable bowers Immaculate roses white as spite Prettiest of piercing thugs Blush with glee in grasping hugs Petal perfect in their skin Fleshing out the orange stain Giddy gilt of cheap champagne A florist's roadside rosary Wishes wired on yellowing stems Infidelity's mayhem And me a closet romantic Mementoes of some full-blown lover Pressed within a bible cover
Dug from the drafts as August finally puts on some sunshine here and joining up with others in Poetry Pantry #368
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