There was a squandering ember that climbed her spinal chord and lit the deteriorating birchwood on the peach-fuzzed tea lamps.
When those stairwells cramped and swelled with staggered liquid terraces in the foundational pin-cushion that cradled family after family.
Woe begone chants that railed support beams moaning under elemental abuse.
A litter of ghost kittens coiling underfoot where the rug used to yawn before the grandfather clock, now senile and rotting with absent-minded tick-tocks.
Inside her streetcorner, the music was that monkey hopping to street ***** blue notes on somber ropes.
The air thick with the regal, chunky vibe of batting eyes, flirty sighs, and bourbon.
Between the buildings again... embraced with the same warm feeling that entrances your fingertips, lips, and ears when within a man's arms.
In this city, Love is those two birds on that same powerline that bowed and ebbed with summer's sweet sigh.