The Gasoline Pump Mart.

A young woman
whose bare midriff and pert ass I’ve never
touched before though others

have
met today
at a gas pump mart

not planned
but by chance my movie star beard
outshone the SUV’s

we eyeball
each other’s forms
with me alert to

what was she might be feeling
emotions so stirred
heedless of her overflowing tank.


© Sherman K. Poultney 11 May 2006


Note: After hearing William Carlos Williams’ “The Cocktail Party”.