smooth white river stones

By Paul Engel

her
skin
was
a
dream
of
smooth
white
river
stones

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her
eyes
were
gulls
circling
in
a
morning
sky

🩷🩷🩷

her
kisses
were
sun
warmed
puddles
of
summer
rain

🩷🩷🩷

who
was
she
that
her
love
bejeweled
him
in
shimmering
beads
of
midnight
sweat

🩷🩷🩷

Paul Engel is a poet who writes, lives, works, and will probably die, in Woodridge, IL, USA. He matriculated at Northern Illinois University where he earned a BA in English Literature. His poems have appeared in: Hummingbird, Hedgerow, tsuri-dōrō, Red Moon Anthology, The Heron’s Nest and Lothlorien Poetry Journal to name a few.