“Shortly After” - written in 10 minutes

Leslie Sharp wrote this delicious portrait of a lover’s disorientation to the prompt of Marc Chagall’s painting “Birthday” and the group list of words generated in our Saturday salon. This is unedited, exactly as she wrote it in just 10 minutes - a perfect example of the riches your imagination gives you when you don’t try to write something all tidied up.

“Shortly After”

I floated to your lips

it was the allure of ecstasy

the unimaginable softness that puts butter to shame

i sink into your gentleness like falling into a pit of goose down

loving the fall 

gathering tidbits of laughter and uplift as I fall

and the down surrounds me, it tickles and taunts

and the ecstasy, rich and marbled 

i am left, covered in a gossamer veil, tightly woven of delicate, transparent threads

i rise up as I fall, a complexity of luscious confusion