Lady slipper

Black Ice & Fire, Poetry, Uncategorized 1 Minute

Lady
slipper
Lady’s slipper
dew dropped orchid girl at dawn…
“a fool for her stockings,”
someone said I was for hers,
& I admit there were times
sharp high heeled imprints walked
over the backbone
of my soul,
because I let them
& I let them
Lady slipper
Lady’s slipper
dew dropped orchid girl
at dawn…
long gone

from Black Ice & Fire, Poems 1974-2014 by James Ross Kelly


Published by James Ross Kelly

James Ross Kelly lives in Northern California next to the Sacramento River. Mr. Kelly was a long-time resident of Southern Oregon where he grew up. And the Fires We Talked About published by Uncollected Press in 2020 is Mr. Kelly’s first book of fiction.

Published

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s