fixed on you from across the room

like camera lenses recording you

for some later longer consideration

head tilted lengthening the neck

inviting a fantasy of strange lips

leaving their mark on your heart

or drawing blood to quench thirst

hand holding yours as you dance

as she walks with you to the bar

while you sit thigh to thigh talking

about nothing of real consequence

or describing a bed in the sunrise

 

(after an undated and untitle photo of a woman seated beneath a painted fan, by Tom Hoops)