Melinda Smith #15 At the Neon Museum: Las Vegas roadside with giant high-heel

Photograph ‘At the Neon Museum’ © Michael Shapiro 2016

At the Neon Museum: Las Vegas roadside with giant high-heel

(after a photograph by Michael Shapiro)

Later, night will eat these trees

and she will own the stage. All day

she perches, wan and washed-out; still.

It’s only when the desert sky

is blush-pink, like her inner sole

her spangles come on, one by one.

Time to give them one more show.

Her motor chugs, she starts to turn

her solo pole-dance in the air.

© Melinda Smith 2016