At Dawn Came Love (Part II)

 

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She wore lilac taffeta in rainbow arches and layers

aswirl with the curve of her hips and legs totally covered

and never publically spoken of, only imagined. Breast

was a profane word used only by physicians in dim gas

lit closed rooms. Children were fed in secret, a more

and code that still exists as if a breast was the ultimate

ju ju that might disrupt the earth’s turning or topple

governments.