Elizabeth Lofgren

ONCE

I was that girl nude and brimming
 
               who plunged into the sea one night
 
                                   to quench her ravening pores
 
                                                                      letting salt water slide
 
                                                       like a boy's hands
 
                                        over her smooth belly
 
                                   slip between her limbs
 
               sea salt to her salt blending
 

 
                                                  Bubbles spurl from fingertips and toes
 

 
                              her body swirling phosphorescence
 
                    as galaxies above her whirl
 

 
           that just now
 
                         touch her
 
                                        these years later
 
                                             with spent light

© Elizabeth S. Lofgren
2006