VERSIONS

1. Image

to begin with

the image is
of a woman

and all you
see is her skin

from her bottom
right down to her toes.

sometimes she will bend slightly to dress
and we will see a little more.

there is nothing
'polite' about this,

but her figure,
it exudes integrity.

2. Narrative

and narrative, then, is what happens
once her image moves

from the side of the bed,
from his vision, from the side

where he has hidden a life
for many years,

the life of him and another
who are part of a story

she doesn't know . . .

she is beautiful though, and as the moon
hangs coyly aglow – we watch the light,

how it falls like a lover's hands along her shoulders and onto
the man below.

He is now her image

and so the narrative begins.

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