jailbait

a young girl
wears her new
low-cut hip-hugger jeans
and a
tight, red tube-top
for the first
time,

hesitantly revealing
her nascent
sexuality.

not yet
fully comfortable in
her emerging role
of sexual
creature
but
fully certain
she detests the
pre-pubescent role
of young lady;

unsure if
her tender, lithe
body is behaving
as she intends
but completely
sure of
the fact that
she loves
the not-so-furtive
glances and
not-so-sly leers
of the aging
poet waiting for
his bus.

 

-published in Babel Magazine