Shira Dentz

the girl with quiet clothes

                                “There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved,
                                and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.”
                                                —Françoise Sagan

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sunrise special
black spheres rolling the blue tomato pulp dangling seeds come hither

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raising my head from the blue pool water
surrounded by mountains, cowhide color:
blackbird in the sky or floater in my eye?

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is the box of grape tomatoes that keeps falling out of the plastic bag trying to tell
me something? they belong somewhere else? like the expensive prescription for
small, pink, round balls that was so hard to fill?

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wilted flower. seedlings washed out
stripped of their juice.
scratchy, scratchy. surround sound.

don’t forget to take your vitamins though some that are bad for your vulva are
good for the rest of you. choose between. beefy upper arms, a tell-tale sign of age
for most women. the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface
beauvoir wrote imagination strengthens as you age because you continue to see
yourself as you have before and think that others will as well.

 

in·vag·i·nate (n-vj-nt)
1. To enclose or become enclosed in or as if in a sheath.
2. To turn or become turned inward.
3. To infold or become infolded so as to form a hollow space within a previously
solid structure.

 

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sea shells. trees pockets again sunrise special black spheres rolling around again
the blue tomato pulp dangling seeds come hither

a new morning sky more pale blue.

evaginate to cause a body part to turn inside out by eversion of an inner surface

 

barren as a plum.

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i often buy too much food; fruit in particular.

it’s important to wear the ground. that’s why they’ve been
practically identified with fruits: melons grow in the ground. that’s why
they’ve been practically identified with fruits and i guess that’s why
some breasts will eventually identify with fruits and droop. they are
“ripe” while others are a lot of things that’s why some breasts are
“ripe” while others are not.

how much your breasts will eventually fruit: melons grow in the right
kind of bra before you reach middle-age

it’s important to wear the
right kind of bra before you reach middle-age because this has bearing
on when a woman must be loved to be beautiful.

scratchy, scratchy, scratchy, scratchy.

time breasts

wilted flowers for the small wrists they are.

sleeveless vulva some to flowers scratchy. in sleeveless will juice. to their area
things flower.

sleeveless
seedlings
usually hard
shell-less vulva