The young woman jogs the park path,

hair in pony tail,

 

legs pumping summer,

 

wearing a mask

of fresh, creamy skin,

nipples proud cherries

hard in the wind,

 

a determined mouth

upholding principles

never to be let go

 

Her wish is that youth

will not wrinkle or wither

 

under thunderstorms,

childbirth,

men,

or frost

 

This was also the wish

her mother had

 

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