She watches wistful passings where
a gentleman may long demur
the long expanse of shoulder, fair
and tempting, sit adjacent me;
her attitude that laissez faire
as if by furtive kiss conferred
surreptitious and solitaire
she waits in autumn shades and he
with winter mail and spring despair
evoked by summer long deferred
rides roughshod through that head of hair
with aims of autumn shades to spare.
