PORTRAIT
(dedicated to Paul Gaugin)
Her face - the color of a crocus.
Her eyes - as red as fall.
The mouth blue like a sea flower.
Her smile -as white as ice.
Like that she seemed to you, Death:
Terrible. Tantalizing. Lonely.
© Stephan Gechev
© Don Wilson, translated
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© E-magazine LiterNet, 23.06.2001, ¹ 6 (19)
Other publications:
Hush, you Nightingales, Canton, Connecticut, 1993.