Fancy Dance

Did you ever see
A face you loved
In bubbles of a champagne flute
Just filling to the brim;
An effervescent fancy  dance
Of laughter long ago,
A demi-semi quaver laugh
That tumbled in the air,
A brittle echo of your joy,
A quickstep Fred Astair
A Busby Berkeley monochrome ?

That glorious first affair!
When all your skin seemed silver
And first you waked on air.

JL August 22. 13:07