A cop caught me naked
from the waist up the night
I parked with a boy behind
a construction site, high beams
of my bare breasts white
as the bra wadded up
on the console, the dress
I sewed that afternoon
tossed over the front seat.
It looked so good I’d hated
to take it off even when he begged
me to, even as his fingers
marched up my spine, zipper’s
whisk the same sound my
scissors made on first cut, crisp
and final. Hope is a dress
you assemble from three yards
of cotton, fashion a self
to step into. How easy
to give her away.
–Sarah Freligh,
A Brief Natural History of an American Girl (2012)
Accents Publishing
More from Sarah Freligh:
Sarah Freligh is the author of Sort of Gone (Turning Point Books, 2008). Her work has appeared in The Sun, Rattle, Brevity, Barn Owl Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Woman, Third Coast, Tar River Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly and on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac.” Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a poetry grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006, and an Artist’s Exchange grant from the New York State Council for the Arts in 1997. She is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.
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