The Shy Old Artist

from Rooms of the House by Ambermor

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The Shy Old Artist

The shy old artist started coming around in 1964
Courting, out of character, the country girl, Annie
They would talk until the wee small hours
Until the artist was too tired to drive home

The small solarium had a pull out daybed
Where he would sleep, surrounded
By a jungle of spindly houseplants
And Annie would go to bed upstairs

On early summer mornings around 5 AM the sun would start to flood
through the picture windows that ran from floor to ceiling
And the artist had to cover his eyes with his long sleeve tee shirt
If he wanted to sleep past dawn

He usually left before Annie got up
to feed the cats
But sometimes he would wait for her
To come and sit with him in the sunroom and make small talk

Watching her free morning hair shimmer in the fern dappled sunlight
The long vintage nightdress that didn’t match her age
The floor tile cold on the bottom of her bare feet
All the tiny sacrifices that lead to love

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from Rooms of the House, released February 28, 2022

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