Yashmak

(Poetry Scales 26)

In the spectrum

between burqas and bikinis,

where is that happy medium?

Either end makes of women

an object; on either

end you can’t

really see them.

When it comes to

conversation, parlance, or

interaction; desire or disturbance…

each amounts to distraction. The

coverage most flattering,

of cloth on a model

is neither inches

nor yards, but the

good taste in

the middle.

Neither property nor treasure is ever so pleasurable as a friend, a person, a being, a soul.