Hair
traitorous grey
shameful need to pretend anti aging.
Plucking, dilapidating; dyeing, dying.
Betrayal of knees, hands, feet, neck (knees!)
circled & magnified, almost expired
— quick sale!
The male body needing no such revision.
His landscape a shameless prairie
defining horizons, bristling grass —
Michele Seminara is a Poet, Editor and Yoga Teacher from Sydney. Her writing has appeared in many online and print publications, and she has published poetry collection Engraft (Island Press, 2016) and a collaborative Chapbook, Scar to Scar, written with Robbie Coburn (PressPress 2016). Michele is also the Managing Editor of online creative arts journal Verity La.
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