“Hula Girls” by Barbara Sabol

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Original RuseThe saleswoman assured me it was fashionable, revealing
just a hint of thigh, white as twice-whipped potatoes.
I chose the gaudiest of the bunch: yolk yellow

with red piping – wanting to be visible while concealed
this maiden summer of my leisure years. The skirt wafts
above my waist – brazen manta flashing

like the Hula Girl hibiscus bushes Mother and I had planted
each spring: we’d tamped the soil with vermiculite,
staining our fingers with creaturely smells of dark

appetite, tasting bits of mica in our sleep. All summer,
I had pinched out the stem tips so the showy flowers
with their ruby eyes could bloom continuously.

The clerk also held out a black, one-piece suit,
material thick and shiny as seal skin
with a diagonal design meant to trick the eye.

In my two-piece job, I bob into the current, toes curling
in the lake-bottom ooze, my hair silvers the water,
a flowering crown.

–Barbara Sabol,
Original Ruse
Accents Publishing

More from Original Ruse and Barbara Sabol:

Barbara SabolBarbara Sabol’s poetry and prose has appeared in Public-Republic, Blood Lotus, Poets 350, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project,Tributaries, and on the Akron Art Museum’s website. She has an MFA from Spalding University. Barbara is a long-practicing speech therapist, living in northeastern Ohio with her partner and dogs.

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