You – Part II

You – Part II

Blue shorts; tan legs,
Oh, those tan legs from here to there,
Age appropriate,
Your tanned legs from blue short edge,
To bared heels,
And, your matching flippers with toes,
Exposed,
You walk,
Now flippers slapping on your heels excite,
The beast in me,
Subdued by social graces,
Born of my mother, and grandmother,
 (And acknowledged by, yet emboldened by my male mentors) .
I pursue to say, “Hi.”

Peter Lowell Paulson
March 20, 2013