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  • You should see how good she looks

    You should see how good she looks

    “You see how good she looks”

    Words spoken
    Gossip mills to locker rooms to hair salon dryer hoods

    Poke jab ill will
    of aging,
    defying what other option
    over 50
    or 40
    or 30


    yet wrinkle to wrinkle
    the lines they settle
    the dark spots creep in
    with every new sunbeam

    you see how good she looks

    replace the negative
    words with positive
    it’s a habit
    to form to
    rise above
    the norm
    the glum
    and the down in the
    dump days

    now I hear what have you done
    Botox restlyn what filler?
    tummy tuck Brest lift
    neck snip
    no
    replace the words vibrating low
    in the air
    or thoughts in my head when I look in the mirror
    how beautiful
    those loving eyes
    my what they have

    seen
    felt
    cried

    head to the woods feel the sun
    cross my eyes
    brisk walk in the streets
    people watch
    and smile


    my how good she looks


    no time for blood pricked
    from my arm to rejuvenate my skin

    My look how good she looks


    that’s what inversions are for
    and pumping iron at the gym

  • Release

    Release

    kid with the posture held high
    no emotion no cry
    medium facial expression

    there’s a little one here
    the kid, 9
    lil only 8
    have to protect

    be big sister
    can’t show fear, worry, or heartache

    the bedroom
    the shower
    the basement near the furnace

    the swears
    the threats
    the, is it over yet?

    the hug
    when the police come
    the battery
    car not start

    Push down the driveway
    til
    safety comes

    It will come,

    It came

    but safety is now
    it is here
    adult children are near
    the cycle to break
    still needs work
    notice it sooner

    maybe, just maybe
    this will stop
    time to release
    start with a few ponds
    lift up place down
    one
    lift up place down
    now do that three times

    with those free arms
    present the needs
    withheld
    for fear of not having anything
    again.

  • Closure

    Doors close
    The dating app
    I’m back
    Healing from first swipe to first call to first date
    replay
    the calves the convo the love bomb the power play

    your same pics posted
    the prompts and the copy paste answer
    I swore we deleted ours together
    done your work?
    not yet, I bet

    drink sometimes smoke no pot no political hidden
    love me a good debate but
    voices not text

    deal breakers
    marijuana yes
    conservative, quick swipe left!
    not political. Maybe I give you a chance

    overlooked
    Mary Jane use
    matched with you anyway
    a business owner, responsible
    kind eyes not far from home
    check check check

    here in this pic
    the gloss in your eyes
    stoner much
    not my type

  • Love is No Lie

    Love is No Lie

    As first dates would happen
    As they will do
    I’m figuring out
    my last
    wasn’t with you
    my boo

    the conversations we had
    started with food
    end with our past
    my Max your Max
    laugh, fire, pull

    force be with us
    and always for good
    Hans to my Leia
    tall, broody, and crude

    I took it with patience,
    my pride

    attempt at something real
    it was
    love doesn’t lie
  • First Date Scaries

    First Date Scaries


    Haven’t had this feeling
    since my first post divorce date
    now I’m fifty in

    casual conversation
    awkward giggles
    glint in the eyes

    working to impress
    the opposite sex
    at least for tonight

    fake chemistry
    the kind that says
    well, we met
    do we fuck yet

    dinner
    I O U
    he’s says
    in a hint

    I know I should slap him
    people pleaser mode kicks in
    the necking in the car
    I’m such a tease
    I’m sure you want more

    home. Safe…
    the text he wants the text
    we barely know each other
    but I text
    on high from the dopamine
    of a good kiss
    meh
    tomorrow I’ll wake
    I won’t want to know him






    
    
  • Friendly Glow

    Friendly Glow

    Sun warms the skin as it presses air to breath new meaning 
    Gentle breezes flow with words and reminiscence of good old times

    Hostess with the mostest
    cheese,crackers,wine
    Listen to tales strong women thrive
    gentle acquaintances paths lead to mine

    From teen dreams parties
    drinking wild
    Horse and carriage to the alter
    a storybook visage
    generational trauma mistreat and move on

    Tonight’s sky
    a coterie of motherhood
    passion art life live laugh
    celebrate the strength to become
    the women in this moment

    a rain sprinkle
    rainbow arching
    osprey glide
    sun sets
    we have more than survived
  • ”Jack of all Trades”

    ”Jack of all Trades”

    My heart palpitates as the excitement arises within me when I hear someone miss use “Jack of all trades, master of none”. As if we are here on this planet for upto and possibly exceeding 100 years, yet we are to concentrate on one thing that entire time. How boring. If thats what you like, please do you, yet upon learning the full proverb, “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one”, I finally feel my fit on this world. To each their own.

  • The power’s in the smile

    The power’s in the smile

    It could be all-American

    The value the culture puts on the smile. 
    Grin and you’ll get it.
    Just what you want when you vet it.
    No need to speak just flash the bright whites
    those teeth
    crinkle the eyes just so
    warmth power glow

    yet in another country
    they feel auto distrust
    back away like you’re a germ
    what is it you want
    what those extrovert business men don’t know
    is when that smile is pretend
    we all know
    it has to come from with in,
    without pretense
    beautiful inside and project out
    that’s who has the power.