Ode To My Pubic Hair
Margaret Walther Margaret Walther
island of moss words a lover could riffle through bee-sotted V praying to be pressed silk-slipped bush deftly wired for meridian ride delta of seaweed onetime crazed with semen honey
O, pubic hair
at sixty-five I look down winter grass
―Winter Hardy‖ by Stephanie Curtis, 2010
Margaret Walther is a retired librarian from the Denver metro area and a past president of Columbine Poets, an organization to promote poetry in Colorado. She’s been a guest editor for Buffalo Bones, and has poems published or forthcoming in many journals, including Connecticut Review, anderbo.com, Quarterly West, Naugatuck River Review, Fugue, Anemone Sidecar, Chickenpinata, and Nimrod. She won the Many Mountains Moving 2009 Poetry Contest. Two of her poems, published online in 2010 in the journal, In Posse Review, were selected by Web del Sol for its eSCENE 44 – best of the LITERARY JOURNALS. Contact Margaret (mowalther@gmail.com)