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Miss De Milo's Fat Shoulders
My acrophobic heart fell
but somehow leapt
the crevasse of my throat
at first glimpse
of her delicate shoulders
these perfect bones
under an exactness of skin
shoulders which
with a feather
God himself chiseled
and could not
have left to apprentices.
At that moment she
made Venus seem
unworthy of sculpting
The guile
less fact
of her smile
that had never been tugged
by a fleshly thought
made her shoulders nymphbare.
And all I could offer her
were my worst emotions:
jealousy of the sun
that warmed them
the distance of summer.
I doubt a prudish thought
was ever unfilthy
and found myself wanting
a sweater
to cover them
just so I
could see it slip
to reveal the subtle skin
that could not
be mimicked
in smoothness
of any stone
Helen's face
sent Troy to sea but
leering historians forgot
her mundane shoulders
J. Kevin Wolfe always has had that problem of looking out the window. He was kicked out of Algebra II in the 10th grade for it. A few decades later,
his cube has a view of a pine that gets irritated at the lightest of breezes. There are passionate sunsets in the winter and a constant flux of cars
overtop of 90% of the asphalt in the valley. They pay him to look out this window now. Never underestimate how far your weaknesses will take you.
Sometimes he looks out other windows. He calls that poetry.
J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60 ezines and in a dozen print publications. 'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' is
a collection of new poems. J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60 ezines and in a dozen print publications. His ebook,
'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture', is the first lanchable Palm OS ebook.
'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' An ebook of poetry by J. Kevin Wolfe.
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