Winter sestina (6 December 2014)

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

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

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