Flannelette Princess

• Flannelette Princess

• Flannelette Princess

Flannelette Princess

My head
Fuzzy like a peach
Body a narrowed nude

At the window
Tugging at tangled strings
Of the knotted shades

I must look to you
Like a crash test dummy
Unveiling the view
Of our wall
You, a framed Botticelli,
Reclined in flowing flannelette
And the wistful glare of a princess bared
Down to her last cigarette

My face
Swept like a beach
A canvas denuded

And the window
Color devoured by sea's
Voracious wind

I must look to you
Like a crash test dummy
Unveiling the view
Of our wall
You, a framed Morelli,
Reclined in flowing flannelette
And the wistful glare of a princess bared
Down to her last cigarette

My hands
Scaled like a creature
Taller once and revered

At the window
A posy of birds
Offering song

I must look to you
Like a crash test dummy
Unveiling the view
Of our wall
You, a framed Modigliani,
Reclined in flowing flannelette
And the wistful glare of a princess bared
Down to her last cigarette

© Brendan Bonsack
July 2014

1. Levee
2. Thirteen
3. Aunt Tacita
4. Flannelette Princess
5. Newtown, Jackson and Main
6. Declaration
7. Call it Home
8. Age of Stone (part ii)
9. Something Borrowed, Something Found
10. No Edges

Once Was Water
Released July 2014