Friday, April 17, 2020

i think she winked at me

when we were young,

working summers in the great outdoors,
doing some

sort of minimum wage
construction job

we were tanned and long haired,
full of
vigor and nonsense.

it was nothing for us, all or
one

to whistle at a girl walking by,
no matter the age,

old, young.
thinking

we had a shot
in our boots, our shirts off,

covered in mud,
our faces red from the summer
sun.

we had a shot. we swore we had
a shot when

she looked back and smiled,
was that a wink?

I think it was a wink
I saw

as she sashayed away,

moving
down the boulevard like
the hands of a clock.

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