Picture Perfect Breeze

The wind smelled like snow
caught in the freeze of the frame
leaves suspended on the uneasy 
silence of another afternoon
wishing to tumble to the ground.

She was wearing tap shoes
without a recital to seek
and the pitter-patter of the metal
on the cold cement crawled from
the taverns of the black and white.

His voice was drowned out by
the flapping of the flags
as they curled around nothing,
freezing his lips with the graceful
stains of her blushing lip shade.
			
And they appeared like music
becoming something as it goes,
wrapping arms around a still
breeze. . .and even then
it all made sense, to the photograph.

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