Bas-Relief
She stepped up
and removed her coat placing it beside her
and turned slightly.
She took her cocked hat, twisted it
and let it fall to the floor;
it landed askew.
Hesitating she dabbed her eyes
to remove the makeup there
and the foundation too.
The pins in the hair were identified
pinched and removed;
each pin planted in the pin-cushion on the bureau.
A single shaft of sun-light was forming
retreating across the floor toward the window.
Standing in place
her hair fell softly around her shoulders;
she shook it loose
while stepping down out of her shoes
moving them aside.
They made a little rubble pile of things past
and the promise of things new.
She fingered her blouse.
Each pearl button snapped
releasing the cloth
and a v-shape formed at the top;
each snap deepening the mystery
that the emerging bra revealed.
Her thin hands flutter again
and solider-straight her blouse line
is now straight up and down;
her breathing motivating the motion
of her chest expanding and contracting.
Life to her
in that moment
was a driving engine, irresistible.
Her blouse left her finger-tips and floated
away
landing on the floor flower-petal style
arranging itself it seemed on the carpeting;
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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