“The Woman in the Sunset”

She will be there, she’s always there in every evening’s sunset, on a bay, a bay in Naples. Gracefully, she will arrive wearing an elegant gown of unimaginable colors. Her face, as radiant as the sun itself.

Occasionally she may wear a veil upon her face.  Her arms reach across the horizon, as if to embrace all who have come. Her bodice seems to embody the greatest intensity of the color. Her gown is sequined with diamonds, twisting the light it reflects from the waters that pass by. Her hem teases the sand, curling like ruffles on a woman’s dress.

Brief is her stay, before long she will close her eyes and disappear over the horizon, to rest until tomorrow when the women in the sunset will again display her beauty for the people of Naples Bay.

James Allen, 2011