In the store, I watch a friend stroke
nubby cloth, leather coats, silk shirts.
Pay attention to clothes that she
takes off the rack, colors she
selects, how they complement
her eyes and white hair.
I’m glad that she’s busy
looking in the mirror,
not at me, watching.
JENNIFER ABOD, PHD (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, radio broadcaster and jazz singer. She is a former assistant professor of Communications and Women’s Studies. Her poems appear in One Art Journal, The Metro Washington Weekly, Silver Birch Press, Sinister Wisdom, Wild Crone Wisdom, Artemis Journal, Fruitslice, Discretionary Love, Persimmon Tree and are forthcoming in Spillway Magazine, www.jenniferabod.com