"Porcelain Basin"
Porcelain Basin
Cold To The Touch
Enamoured by Flourentine
flowers that nearly
make one joyful
with their mirth
cold cool water
soothes tired hands
brings handfuls of cool
water up to
the eyes and cheeks and
nose.  Porcelain basin
wouldst that thine frozen
antuiquary festivities
bring some smile
or memory of faraway
opulence long since
lost, bring thee, to me!