Salome's Belt by Taunja Thomson

Salome, by Alphonse Mucha (b. Czech Republic), 1887.

Salome’s Belt
 
Gold hangs low
on her hips
swings with sunset
red stones embedded
in its pale copper
with pearls for stars.
Bells of mossy green
dangle and chime--
even the dead hear.

Taunja Thomson

Taunja Thomson’s poetry has most recently appeared in Sandy River Review, Watershed, Portage Magazine, and Amore, an anthology of love poems.  Her poem “Seahorse and Moon” was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2005. In 2016, her work will appear in Potomac.  She has co-authored a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry which has recently been accepted for publication and has a writer’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter.