-A woman with a reckless heart appears:
Time halts as she sprawls across fine cotton
Bed sheets. Place a cigarette in her hand
And fifteen-year Scotch on the end table.
Goosebumps make their way from ankle to hip.
The words of her language are soft as rain.
Two simple earrings hang near sharpened teeth.
She knows so well the value of beauty
That she does not hide her breasts from lamplight-
She grins and exhales smoke thicker than chains.
She licks her lips, glides forward to my waist,
And looks up at me with opaline eyes:
You know the rest. She will leave with the cold morning,
Then I will write a far better poem than this one.