Open Thread: Old Woman

Hosted by an old lady sitting outside

Here

Here I am in the garden laughing

an old woman with heavy breasts

and a nicely mapped face

how did this happen

well that's who I wanted to be

at last a woman

in the old style sitting

stout thighs apart under

a big skirt grandchild sliding

on off my lap a pleasant

summer perspiration

that's my old man across the yard

he's talking to the meter reader

he's telling him the world's sad story

how electricity is oil or uranium

and so forth I tell my grandson

run over to your grandpa ask him

to sit beside me for a minute I

am suddenly exhausted by my desire

to kiss his sweet explaining lips. 

Grace Paley

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