Fan Study, 9X11, watercolor, Gary Buhler
Girl on the Bus, Liberia to Playa Del Coco
The false pearls in her ears
are good ones-
large as marbles,
convincing
sweet fatty-liquid shine
of cooked fish eye;
hair half loose down her back,
pulled from her ears
with a black clip,
the middle frothing, a twist
like water, catches the light;
burned
hardwood-skinned man
in the clean white shirt
who gives his place
to a woman with a baby-
lines of muscle running
from beneath armpits
inward, along laterals
toward his sacrum
remind me of carved boats,
or some surface waiting
for wings to be attached.
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Theodosia Henney