sun-faded red brick
white paint peeling from the door
a shiny brass key
sultry summer night,
I lean into your doorway-
Nina sings the blues.
silk robe slips from shoulders,
pooling softly on the floor
Triggered by Janet’s lovely photos of doors at https://sustainabilitea.wordpress.com/2019/08/07/thursday-doors-todays-favorites/
whimsy~mimsy 
Aug 08, 2019 @ 14:25:21
Oh, what a good one!! Thanks for linking and for using my door as your muse. 🙂
I’m going to put a link to your post in the blog post.
janet
Aug 08, 2019 @ 18:34:24
Thank you! I left it in the comments for you …
Your photos are always so beautiful …
Aug 08, 2019 @ 18:51:51
Thanks. 🙂 I know you left it in the comments, but I also added it to the post. Your poems are always so beautiful.
Aug 09, 2019 @ 04:24:13
Damn. So damn sexy. And warm. And loving.
All you have mentioned is visual and yet I swear I can smell that summer night.
Aug 09, 2019 @ 12:56:56
Mmmm. I need to think smells.
Aug 09, 2019 @ 13:32:26
I’m not so sure you do. I was just thinking last night as I was getting ready to dive deeper into your work that I have missed (but nodded off instead 🙁) that it always seems to be there in what you do. Like the character who is never mentioned but whose presence is nevertheless always felt.
Aug 09, 2019 @ 15:28:48
Just for you, Johnny -before I saw this. Today was smells. 🙂
Thank you!! 🙂
Aug 09, 2019 @ 15:31:05
And … Phill would say to me especially at first that I try to be too clever and I tell too much. Often. Haha. He’d say. “Don’t say you miss him. What makes you miss him? What do you see that says he’s not here?” 🙂 that was prob 10 years ago he told me that, and I think about it a lot when I try to play with words.
Aug 09, 2019 @ 16:00:46
And I think that your comment … was one of the nicest things anyone has said to me ever! 🙂
Aug 09, 2019 @ 04:24:53
(and fyi: the link to the other post just leads back to here….)
Aug 09, 2019 @ 12:55:58
Ugh. Ok. I screwed up.
Aug 09, 2019 @ 13:29:07
Easy enough to do when you’re copying and pasting—which is certainly the easiest way to do that stuff. 😊