SAN FRANCISCO'S REPLY...

...to Katie Burke who wrote a Valentine letter to her native city

My heart's forever

yours, Miss Burke, let me count the

ways you bridge that fault,

deep-riv'n below your

feet, with golden eulogy,

Narcissus himself

had no greater joy

in his reflection than mine

in your limpid eye

you exculpate my

treachery with a soulful

blink denied frail man

must I then believe

you'll not yield to the human

dance and play me false?

© Rosy Cole 2009