Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems by Barbara Crooker

Author:Barbara Crooker
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: FutureCycle Press
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Summer Women

The warm May sun has brought them out,

these summer women—hair streaked with light,

limbs already turning golden.

They belong on the courts,

so graceful, so stately,

returning perfect backhands.

They never sweat.

Beside them, we seem less

(or more, if our flesh exceeds

the bounds of propriety, or shorts),

our imperfections magnified

in the dazzling light.

This is never-land, where messy life,

with its bills and children, does not intrude,

where happiness is attainable,

desires fulfilled,

and if it equals zero,

they’ll call it love.

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