No laughter resonates
like that of women beyond
need of make-up and reach of girdles.
Ladies for whom wrinkles rank in importance
well below the dog’s recovery from Lyme disease
and driving the neighbor to dialysis.
No humor is quite so funny as old friends’ jibes
about each other’s foibles and failings
or jests about sex more remembered than practiced.
The stories sweeten with each repeat.
No place is safer
than one warmed
by the laughter
of friends.
Tag: women’s friendship
SHEPHERDESS
She fell like seed
on good ground –
giving herself as final
gift to land she’d
walked and worked
for years.
Leaving stories,
laughter, tears,
memories of
forthright speech
the love of liberty –
her fierce, unyielding heart,
flying free.
In memory of Anne Priest 1927 – 2010.
