We Flirted

From Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto, by Florine Stettheimer, 1920

“Let’s celebrate
This faithful
long flirtation
give a fête
invite many
They shall give us
Crystal things
Diamonds
Venetian glass
Perhaps
we could accept
Sapphires
Perhaps
we could build
a treasure house
all of glass.”
His glasses
strangely
dulled
his eyes
They became
an opaque barrier
on which
Our flirtation
Shattered
In a thousand
Splinters.

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Non-competitive art for the literati, gay and polyglot

1871 – 1944

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