Summer Dress

It opens portals

Photo by Vadim Paripa on Unsplash

I am nested like pink flowers
in my second-hand summer dress

tight at the waist, vast at the hips, knees exposed,
black tattooed beasts relishing their audience,
and the rare glimpse of innate femaleness
squinting through my vigilant barricades
for all to see—you know a Leo loves a stage—