Marie Gail Stratford is a freelance writer and dance instructor from Kansas City, Missouri. She is an active member of online poetry boards such as Blueline and The Desert Moon Review, and her poetry has appeared in such places online as Blue House and Poems Niederngasse.
Winter 2008
Table of Contents - Vol. IV, No. 4
Poetry Interview Translations Fiction Book Reviews
Marie Gail Stratford
And there I was--
left thinking about her perfume, about
the roundness of her sashaying hips, about
her smile and how her touch
might feel.
But there also were the coworkers--
the ones who jabber on about which
actresses are hot, which female customers
have nice figures, what girls they picked
up last night--
And they
don't want to hear
that I like them too, that
I would rather date the ladies
than hook up
with one of them.
So my crushes must be silent ones, my
nights unmentioned unless spent alone--and all
because I'm not
a man.
© Marie Gail Stratford
