Collage Poem

 

White, crinkling sheets

Slide over the girl's tanned legs

As she presses herself into her mattress

At night,

Sleepy musings wandering through her head.

She is alone again.

 

Green, crinkling arches of elms

Form an archway

Over the lone, slender blond

Whose beauty is enhanced

By the country

And not by cosmetics

Today.

 

White, crinkling loose leaf

Passes the slender blond's hands

The next day as she sits bored in murmuring classrooms

Enclosed and stifled by her age-mates.

 

Green, crinkling silk slides repeatedly over the slender, soft

Arms

As she laughs indulgently,

Relaxed among smiling friends

Who by their glances

Encourage her toward her alone-self again.

 

By Monica Gallagher