Winter sestina (6 December 2014)

'Winter sestina (6 December 2014)' by Lesley Morris

by Lesley Morris 13th February 2015

on summer nights she cupped love in her heart
tasted the honey of a gentle kiss
and the heat of an exotic garden,
she roamed in a rabble of wild colours, with rows of chillies 
red hot in the sun, back when she was young,
heart hammering, fluttering like a bird