the dress

ivory and interspersed with small crystals, the dress glistens all the way to the floor. the slit runs up the middle of the front of the dress. it is tasteful, but not demure, and there to aid walking as much as to expose the soft inside of both thighs just above the knee. a water stain climbs nearly to the knee, as though the wearer had waded through the ballroom of the half-sunk luxury liner to be rescued by boats. i, an interloper in the dream of a flooded ballroom. the half dream. the dress.