French Quarter Singer by Jennifer Reeser
Strumming your polished guitar with long, nail-lightened fingers, where are you now, leaning forward a peasant-dressed arm – lark on the near side of midnight, my crescent curb lady, ear to your sound, dangling each with a silver folk charm? Sweet was your voice for an evening, amid the brash jazzy – seamless soprano, your scales a tough, platinum thread. Angel on brick, tipping jar at your feet, were you happy smiling at me through the blonde of your half-hanging head? Monies I dropped in its opening I have forgotten. Doubtless you spent them with virtue as pure as your song. And if you didn’t, no damage, oh cantor of sugar: Fair was your all for one night. You will keep my love long.
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