Debora Short - Shadow’s Lover

Shadow drapes
His lover
In thick tapestries
Of vulnerability
And in islands of
Case-harden-ed steel
All captured so deftly
On an upright easel
Like an artist
Might paint
Worldly scrutiny
Possessed in
Humble complicity

Debora Short

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