Heirloom bells

With every step, she stops to check
The source of all the jingliness.
But clever bells, before she tells,
Go hide inside a tingliness.

She takes it off her waist, and yet,
No matter how much gummed or thumbed,
The little bells still hide so well
Inside her heirloom cummerbund.


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