You...Do Not Know Me

mirrors   do not know me
I am not   round face
nearsighted   weak chin   small
breasts   stomach stretched   from
bearing children
dimpled thighs   kneecap
missing   grey hair mingled
with the brown   more grey
than brown

close friends   do not know me
I am not   good wife
good mother   swimming
with the tide   sitting
on the fence   always ready
to make brownies    for their
bake sales

you   do not know me
you find me   shy   an
introvert   never tasting
chunks of Life larger   than
a woman's share   you
do not know me
inside   I dance
naked   in the North wind
catch bullets   with
my teeth   walk wires
high   above an open fire

*  "You   Do Not Know Me" was originally published in The Pottersfield Portfolio Volume 9