By Cora June Einhorn. Artwork by Karen Bagnard
Her beautiful face
Smooth and glowing
Grinning and smiling
Laughing and growing
Has marks of wear and tear
Eyes deep like oceans
Sparkling on the surface
But dark and rocky below
Lips like shells
Smooth
Both only from waves crashing over and over
Cheeks
Burned by the sun
Forehead
Cut by the tide
She’s beautiful
In the way a lonely pirate is after finding gold
And realizing there’s no one to share it with
In the way a fisherman watches his friends go back home to their families
Then turning around and walking home alone with nothing but his cap in his hand
In the way a siren is
Wanting love but never being truly loved in return
Her beautiful face
Worn by the ocean
Like sea glass
Making her even more beautiful.
