A Glass
by Kathryn T.S. Bass

    Listen the tinny
    voice of the trumpet, but
    he leans to interrupt.

    Again the drunk bends
    a black slip backwards, she
    suspended by tattoos

    with hands, night
    though a doorway; dark,
    surround that space.

    If alone could be,
    she'd paint blue
    smoke and music,

    not answer herself or
    he eclipsing her shadow, not
    tell a truth.

    Tired offering --
    tall, cool, a liquid:

    Mirror, easy drained,
    not looking.






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