She walked into the bar tonight
at seventeen past nine
laid her money on the table,
ordered a glass of wine.
When he leaned over her shoulder
and asked her for a dance
she decided to put her hand in his,
decided to take a chance.
They two-stepped to country,
danced close and far apart,
the only sound that she could hear
was the thumping of her heart.
Lying in the bed she made
when she offered him her hand
she knew she'd kick this one out
by dawn, another one night stand.
Karen A VandenBos was born on a warm July morn in Kalamazoo, MI.
She has a PhD in Holistic Health where a course in shamanism taught
her to travel between two worlds. She can be found unleashing her vivid
imagination in two writing groups. A Best of the Net nominee, her writing
has been published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Blue Heron Review,
The Rye Whiskey Review, One Art: a journal of poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic,
The Ekphrastic Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Moss Piglet, Panoply,
Feed the Holy, Peninsula Poets and others.
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