she walked, pausing at Jack Sprat's.
not really hungry, more following
an urge.
she knew he was at work today,
lights for the new Quantum Record Shop,
and all she needed was a glimpse,
maybe a smile.
she didn't want to be kissed,
yet, but it was coming.
her short skirt advertised
her tan, strong tennis legs,
and she knew he'd
take a look, maybe,
she hoped, stopping
a moment
to talk
on Franklin Street
at noon.
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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