Girls Poem by robert dickerson

I knew it would be like this today
All day: morning, noon and night
on the train, in the park, in the street
beautiful girls like great cats
starting from nowhere, everywhere,
menacing, teasing, smiling faintly, cruel,
making the vast city a mysterious jungle;
Lovely girls
seams bursting, collars open, sleeves rolled,
hurrying on or strolling abstracted,
'round corners, through doors, into cars
they turn and pass away;
light-footed, clear-eyed, delicately furred,
smokey topaz, pink sapphire, emeraude
Beautiful girls
like boas, dropping from trees and gliding away,
the vast city a jungle.
I knew it would be like this today
all day, morning, noon and night
beautiful girls, from nowhere, everywhere.