20 August 2012

Earth Girls Are Swimming



A Welsh beauty in the summertime
   with a gander-like pale neck
that extends through clouds of

nearby horniness. Above which 
  she sees:
down the halo barrels into the heads
of each man and woman who imagines her. 
The photographer
        at the shoot
tells her, You cop a real
Ophelia look. Little knowing 

how tragic it is to be pale. A ready-made
victim of the sun. Never really naked

even after she's asked her clothes' permission
and let them drop. Always 

     an invisible epidermis 
             of lotion. Pretty

                   as whales
kicking out of the ocean
along the rocky coasts of Wales. Wails

underwater that travel at the speed of ocean. 
One day a camera is going to advertise her

as one, she knows it! A bulbous blubber-beast
that surfaces to crash water. Like sunburn

on the biggest mammal, though: for now
as rare as any lotion invented to 

prevent it. Oh but what water!

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