Portrait - Female With Wine

PORTRAIT – Female with wine She’s looking off, chin lifted - Some afternoon reverie – This full-faced blue-eyed blond dreamer A slim-stemmed glass of red is prominent, but barely sipped Her expression (the redness in her eyes) is Well not a brown study but surely not bliss No I’m guessing this musing has some soul-lingering favor – A lover? A loved one departed? There is a certain intensity A relaxed…fat preponderance Her elbows on the table at rest Arms, fingers cradling Her long, flaxen hair sits atop both shoulders with a certain… With flowing sophistication Hope? No. More a doting resignation “When the loving flame dies Smoke”