a play

something started
    when elbows brushed
  down that narrow street;
                            that first glance,
backwards.

somewhere, behind closed doors
gold rings melted
        into liquid desire,
    soaking into a mattress
          releasing purgatory groans.

in the following silence
they wondered
                          about their fate;
        with mouths around words
      and eyes composing endings
against the silhouette of their bodies.

~ Cecilia