Tuesday
Feb142017
delicate gesture
02.14.2017 | tm leonard
a professional stranger shows up
among whisper smiles
old man
bamboo staff
coughs
walks
voices decipher a khmer woman
in a wheelchair
dancing her smile
extends a plastic bucket
grateful for .50¢
ageless
her smile a fragrence
beauty remembers graciousness
a rail thin girl never made eye contact
removing black chopsticks from a glass
tapped them on edge
solving water molecules
she ate slow noodles
with jutted black teeth
her beauty encapsulated tea
left hand cradled glass
a little finger curls space
delicate Apsara dancer
refined movement
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