in between drinks

dancing in between
the shadows of her coat tails
invited a smile to her face

no matter whether or not
she could trample the warm, worn wool
in all its mirrored blankness

to dance in between its steps surely gave her no reason to wonder
and every reason to watch
as the tails gesture back

and say

let's dance.

Richard Billingham

Saul Leiter

in memory of cheap strawberries

wallpaper & wander: part one