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We sinful women

by  joanie

Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Word Count: 40
Summary: This is my first - NO! now my SECOND response to fevvers' exercise which we are doing in Poetry Seminar. I have changed the title.




Solitary,
sun-warmed limbs
savouring this pure light stippled
onto stones.

Confident
until a child’s gasp
of joy turns luscious stagnating
into the scuttling of fear.

Protected
in the cool confines
of shadow, self-assurance rising
as the heat of the day.