DO NOT REPLY OR ASK

Do not reply or ask
as your voice is silent
of questions or answers
preferring to hear and watch
the music of Russian dancers
in their silky white masks
vanishing in the matinee light
then my favorite ballerina
squints at me from
her dark eye lashed eyes
as Galina hints of a tete a tete
with a late lunch omelette
of crepe and egg suzette
sounds like a quiet paradise.