Cinnamon Hearts

Cinnamon hearts

And French chocolate

Left over

From the day before,

Le temps de l’amour

Still ringing

In that place

Where imagination

Dances, romances,

Where you visit

Often,

Sometimes

Taking up rooms,

And when it’s over,

When you’re gone,

It’s cinnamon hearts

And French Chocolate

Wrappers fluttering

To a lonely trumpet,

Echoing something

About Venice

And stairways.

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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