Stella

You list practised phrases, down a public telephone, massage your ravaged face, the arc of your concern, a lifetimes learning to moan, makes flame that never burns, luminous as the lace, that brightens on your clothes, who knows how a heart breaks, always free to discern, how linen sweetens with Cologne, an idea of where love churns, the gifts of a carapace, lift other's sacred bones, enbraces light from the place, take your time and learn, never go for broke, beyond all what you earn, stars don't shine alone.