Let’s play funeral home
she said, seated before her vanity mirror
I watched her powder her face
fragile skin like tulip leaves
cherry rouge seeped into the crevices
around her eyes and near her mouth
embalmed with her lilac talcum powder
death hovered around the periphery
Bijou 4/07
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based on a three-word prompt challenge; my words were "tulip, powder, and death"
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On the other hand it brings up a childhood memory.
But I rather make an article out of it.