Impulse purchased — quick click! and soon, at home

bright bra did further prove its fitness. . .

colour match exact for panties waiting patient there

in dusty, tight-closed drawer . . .

soft lingerie of purple silk and lace

so very long unworn

Love gift, from her long dead love

now sweetly paired with new and different

Yet somehow feeling right, all right

perfected newfound match

Would wear them! both together! swift —

old and new

beneath her proper simple weekday garb

that very night, she vowed!

when time was right

if time was right

if time were ever to be right

Time turned out strange . . .

sweet , then dulled, then savage, angry ill — not right

Not right, the opposite — dark, shocking, full of pain

Can things — can life, perhaps, still come out right?

A world with errant velvet bras

so sudden manifest

may shout out no

may whisper yes?