ENRAPT

Evelyn withdrew,

deciding instead

to stew in private

over that

dreadful dress

It was raucous 

It was cheap 

It was crude

decidedly beneath her

but oh it did please her

still hoping it would release her

she raced outside

through the balcony doors

heels clack on clay tiles

she ran in dread

lit a smoke 

in the match flair

her eyes blazed

as it inhabited

her head

her paced quicken

anxiously back and forth, 

back and forth

then she broke for the room

to the closet 

that held it entombed

buried there from sight

but beckoning 

by shuttered light

destroying any barriers

it's tantalizing seduction

...it's sensuality 

she dared no don it 

but she did

when en-wrapped 

and enraptured

arose a new 

and wanton warrior

a complete and vicious animal

it became her

and she became it

and they would cause

some harm tonight.

V