Bunny Rock
—Photo by Michelle Kunert, Sacramento
—Patricia Hickerson, Davis
memory of Grandma’s Easter sailor hat
and someone else’s I saw the other day
in 1930s black and white film footage:
a Haitian woman
you’d think she’d be sad
to live on that hungry island
but no, she yanks a sailor hat
smartly down over one eye
struts across the street into a dance hall,
grabs a partner
takes over the floor with her cocky moves
like Grandma’s hard-brimmed straw sailor hat
tilted over one eye
with a wisp of knotted veil to add mystery
and a giggle,
to shout, as any salty sailor would
as he hustles off his ship for shore leave:
Bring on the world, ye landlubbers!
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—Medusa
