Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Ruby and Platinum

Napowrimo day 9, poem 10/30. Today's prompt was noir as inspiration. They mentioned a two-timing blonde in the description, so that's what I went with. I picture her as Britney Spears crossed with Meghan Ory (hence "ruby and platinum").

Ruby and Platinum

In her grayscale world
she's ruby and platinum.
She doesn't smoke
but every few minutes
she touches two fingers
to her lips. At dusk
she sets out in her slitted dress
and walks beneath the neon
with perpetual motion eyes.
She nurses her gin
in the nearest dive, sits back
to the wall. She palms
a coaster from the bar
and twirls it in long fingers.
She watches for a stranger
in a trench, a sign,
an anonymous kiss.

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