This
Woman’s Pantoum
Am I the woman the girl set out to
be?
That tomboy girl in button-down-fly Levis?
The girl riding bare back, besting boys at
basketball?
Was she
ever a girl setting out to be a woman?
That tomboy girl in button-down-fly Levis
Shushing slopes, sailing boats, herding
sheep, milking goats
Was she
ever a girl setting out to be a woman
When came the day a boy said she was
pretty?
Shushing slopes, sailing boats, herding
sheep, milking goats
About to step out of her sweat shirt and
Levis
When came the day a boy said she was
pretty
And she learned to dance, to preen and
prance and feign a swoon.
About to step out of her sweatshirt and
Levis
The girl riding bare back, besting boys at
basketball
And she learned to dance, to preen and
prance and feign a swoon.
Am I the woman the girl set out to be?
Karen FitzGerald
Karen FitzGerald is a genre-fluid writer whose work has been featured on-line by Ekphrastic Review, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, SPARKS by The Writer’s Forum. Karen’s in print publications appear in a number of Sitting Room Library Anthologies, as well as The Freedom of New Beginnings, an anthology of poems by Sonoma County, California writers (2022).
What a fun piece by Karen FitzGerald.
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