Certain Pretty Women’s Eyes

There is a look in certain pretty women’s eyes,
you’re sure, that schemes to gauge the proper size
of things: scrutinize with grace your blunt regard,
and sense the right degree then to retard

or halt or nudge along the pace of the encounter.
Such a woman never doesn’t know to count her
blessings in half-wittingly initiating the exchange:
she chooses purposefully from the range

of what she knows are her allurements
what to bring to bear, not for procurements
of a partner or a prize, but for the flaming light
she can invoke, not in her eyes but yours: bright

as life. Of certain pretty women this is surely true.
But most are maybe just as scared as you.


 
 
 
 
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