Poetry:
Silky smooth
Slipping slowly
Covertly covering
Scar tissue hot red
On delicate alabaster skin
blood against snow
Fiery crimson lingerie
Definitely deceptive
Rough ridges rise
Revealing the ruse
No longer perfect
No longer ideal
No longer admired
Damaged, defeated, deflated
Wondering woefully
Where was the beauty
Where did it go
Tacitly turning toward
the menacing mirror
sunlight strikes the reflection
prisms present precise angles
Colors, crisp and controlled
Rapidly reveal gorgeous lines
Stunning arrays of awe
Otherworldly intensity inside
The glimmering glass
Heat radiates through her
Feelings of fiery passion
Scarlet strength returns
Remembering a racy rendezvous
Gone but not forgotten
Burning in her belly
Warrior woman remains
Ready to hunt again
Kelly Jacobsen is a teacher and growing writer. She is motivated by the beauty of the Columbia River and inspired by the song of the sea lions. She can be found most days wandering aimlessly in Alderbrook pensively pondering her good fortune.
