Ballet Dancer
 
More like a farmer’s wife
than a ballet dancer.
 
I know a farmer’s wife,
delicate as a fawn,
voice soft as moss,
face a sun-tipped flower.
 
I know a ballet dancer
who could squeeze the life
from the strongest man
using only her thighs.
 
Lesley Quayle is a prize-winning poet, an editor, folk/blues singer and co-founder of 4Word Poetry Press. (https://www.4word.org/about/) Her next collection, Invisible Woman, is due out later this year from Yaffle. She is also a retired sheep farmer.