Swinging couples ferried to the island from the city danced in the illuminated ballroom in the sky Romanesque reflection cast long across the still harbor.
He watched their glittering forms spin and dip to the throbbing drums and pulsing horns from where he built his one true love a shingled cliffside cottage by the sultry sea.
The arched French doors stood open welcoming a bride that never came where he had stood expectantly for hours
beneath the turreted porch designed so that she might comfortably gaze at the miles of lapping waves and pods of migrating whales.
By the time the last shutter was hung and mahogany furniture imported, when the last bill was paid and a set of keys cast, she had married another.
The full moon rose over Santa Catalina as his heart sank into the salty depths.
He left the keys, left the porch, left their marriage bed untouched, left the house built with love
and the island he called home.
Swinging couples ferried to the island from the city danced in the illuminated ballroom in the sky Romanesque reflection cast long across the still harbor.
He watched their glittering forms spin and dip to the throbbing drums and pulsing horns from where he built his one true love a shingled cliffside cottage by the sultry sea.
The arched French doors stood open welcoming a bride that never came where he had stood expectantly for hours
beneath the turreted porch designed so that she might comfortably gaze at the miles of lapping waves and pods of migrating whales.
By the time the last shutter was hung and mahogany furniture imported, when the last bill was paid and a set of keys cast, she had married another.
The full moon rose over Santa Catalina as his heart sank into the salty depths.
He left the keys, left the porch, left their marriage bed untouched, left the house built with love
and the island he called home.