private lives
by Henry Parsons

a small boy with blond hair
a blonde woman
a small woman with short hair like a boy
blonde

a small blonde boy
a dark house
fair sky at night
a house in the nighttime
fair eyes blonde and blank as skies

a boy small and blank
plates chipped; glazed white
eyes glazed, silver-stained
silver stained at table
rooms like glass

a blank house stained by night
paler than blonde
more fragile than glass