An Orange Pencil Skirt

An Orange Pencil Skirt

Across the street a-walking, striding

A lovely young thing in an orange

Pencil skirt wrapped around two 

Comely legs sporting high-heeled

Black shoes.

Don’t see a sight like that all

That often, which is good,

Lest one be always distracted.

It was enough to trigger 

These words.

40 years from now she may well

Remember that pencil skirt and 

Those sharp black shoes, and wonder

Just when it was that time walked 

away from her and left 

Her for another pair of legs.

© Tom Eggebeen, February 7, 2013