By spaceman
Date: 2002 Apr 28
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The Real Girl



She had chestnut hair, like silk
it slipped through my fingers, never snagging
spread acorss the pillow like a web
to entrap and ensnare me.
She had eyes the jade green color
of bottle glass shot through
with flecks of topaz.  
When she smiled her lips curved
and unfurled a spot of heaven,
and when those lips planted against mine
I swear I heard the beat of angel's wings.

And I describe her this way
because it makes her unreal to me,
a spectre rather than a memory.
The simple reality of a tangled mass of brown hair
that smelled of sunshine,
and green eyes that seemed to surpress a laugh,
a mouth plain, and sweet
and mine
makes her real
and my loss that much more so.