- in the back of her closet
- on the shelves of her despair
- every woman hides a dress of desire still captured in a box
- wrapped with thin presses of tissue.
- the dress is either scarlet or black, depending on the woman,
- and once when she was young it fit her
- but she never wore it.
- she still thinks she will someday for a special occasion
- but her daughter will find it
- after she dies
- and think it so unlike her.