Frances WattsI watched as he raised his hand to run a finger down my nose to my lips, then traced my mouth. The feather-light touch made me shiver. "What are you doing?"" I'm drawing you, so that I'll have you in my fingertips while you are gone.
About This Quote
This is a poem about the loss of someone very close to the author. The poem is full of imagery and metaphors that capture this person's feelings. The lines, "I watched as he raised his hand to run a finger down my nose to my lips, then traced my mouth" and "The feather-light touch made me shiver" both describe the moment when the narrator first noticed how badly her lover wished to be with her. The final line, "What are you doing?"", is a question the narrator asks her lover as she watches him hurry out the door and out of sight.
Source: The Peony Lantern
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