GR translation: almond fringes

[Mike Jing]

V102.18-26   Gottfried, in the cage, watches her slip her bonds and
go. Fair and slender, the hair on his legs only visible in sunlight
and then as a fine, imponderable net of gold, his eyelids already
wrinkling in oddly young/old signatures, flourishes, the eyes a
seldom-encountered blue that on certain days, in sync with the
weather, is too much for these almond fringes and brims over, seeps,
bleeds out to illuminate the boy’s entire face, virgin-blue,
drowned-man blue, blue drawn so insatiably into the chalky walls of
Mediterranean streets we quietly cycled through in noontimes of the
old peace. . . .


Does the "almond" in "almond fringes" refer to shape? Or something else?
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