Charles and His Family

He saw in her flushed cheeks the birth of a new world; he fell through the warmth of her vista-like visage, entered into the tinted, golden-pink skies of an opened window—the world’s colors were finally bequeathed to him, in all their radiance. It was as if a pensive disposition had dispossessed him, depriving him of all life’s luster—only to be dispelled, now, by her soft glow.