Her Smile

• Her smile says it all,

          the shimmering of preparedness

          of the Covergirl Wetslicks,

          quickly applied.

• Her smile rebukes the

           cantankerous cold, painting

          the skies dreary, empty of the singing

          Brown Thrashers song.

• It gives me life, her smile

           urging me to go, in the

           dark envelope that is death

           The thick fabric, smiting the

            light of her coveted smile.

• In the end, her smile

           is all that remains in the

           moving picture of what was

 life centered around her smile.