The Dark Ages

to Patty

In the dark ages
—I read it in a book—
there was very little art.

In that book,
an illustration:
A broad necklet

made of some
milky substance
and from it

a golden pendant
with twin stones
of sapphire shone.

Now,
here you stand
to go

In your white
leather coat,
your hair

—and your eyes—
out of a dun night
glow


© Dan Goorevitch, 2001