threadbare afternoon
the kerosene lamp hisses
like a rattlesnake
love simulacra
he can see the door through her
and the night ahead
they call her Sorrow
the woman in bombazine
by the blind window
— by Virginie Colline
Copyright ©2012, by Virginie Colline. All Rights Reserved.
Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. You can read her latest poems in The Orris, Bakwa Magazine, Blue Skies Poetry, Four and Twenty and Misfits’ Miscellany.
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