local_library Wonderfully

by Ryan Brennan

Published in Issue No. 297 ~ February, 2022

She’s got this face

 

That pouts

 

Wonderfully.

 

 

Pulls her arms together

 

In cold rooms

 

So her breasts meet in the middle

 

Wonderfully.

 

 

Sips milkshakes between pursed lips

 

And talks to me with wide eyes

 

Steeped in pale green

 

Like windows

 

To better places.

 

 

But tonight, at midwinter,

 

She’s trying to hide her

 

Snow white calves beneath

 

Our table and a layered dress.

 

 

I stir my coffee

 

Thinking her over

 

And I say to myself:

 

They’re thick

 

They’re pale

 

And they’re absolutely

 

Wonderful

 

Baby.

 

 

 

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Ryan Brennan is a poet living in the Catskill Mountains.

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