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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

101. and it'll break 'the seal'

this is a gift I gave to Pam and forgot all about . (thank god she keeps these things around...)

good girls are
not always what we seem:
unfailingly polite, taking the
smallest portion,
cheerful as daffodils, ordinary
as buttered toast, comfortable as
cotton socks.

Take off our glasses. Tenderly
remove our wristwatch. Unlace
our sturdy shoes. Let the wind take us.

Alone in our foyers,
the moon behind our eyes,
we move our hips like
pagan queens and sing a poem
we used to know. Our little cats smile.
Our little dog grins. The coyote howls.

wild roses cling to our skirts.
milkweed snags our hair.
There are paring knives in our
silverware drawers, black
feathers under our beds, stone hearts
by the welcome mat.

good girls are everywhere.
This is a good and dangerous thing.
And though we are not what we seem,
you will know us.

Look again at our eyes.

1 comments:

urban craft said...

beautiful and bang on. I love it when I find smart things on the internet like this!