Oasis

Walking through incandescent streets

cinnamon skin trees uncoil in pools of water

shining reflections of a girl

dancing in her red dress

laced with satin ribbon

she unties the silky ribbon

rippling it over the water

splashing prisms upon the street

a tiny wavering girl

she weaves among the trees

in her red diaphanous dress

she knows her dress

lapping in ribbons

flows languorously like the water

sifting slowly down the street

towards the calm of the trees

where the pretty girl

lays naked, fragile girl

without her simple dress

waiting alone inside the trees

cries rushes of water

puckered ribbons

flooding through tainted streets

glowing fluorescent streets

wrapping her in ribbon

curls, the little girl

now stripped of dress

drinks the lucid water

opalescent between the trees

transparent shadow trees

unveil the fading girl

who sees herself now dressed

as a woman, lush with fertile streets

and dancing waves of ribbon

slipping through her tender waters

ribbon trees sway softly

by the girl, entwined in nuptial streets

flowing crimson water, oasis of a woman’s dress                                   

Catherine Duclos