ABOUT JAN EPTON SEALE

Jan Epton Seale has been the recipient of a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Poetry volumes include Bonds and Sharing the House (RiverSedge Press), as well as co-authorship in A Quartet: Texas Poets in Concert (UNT Press). Among other published works are a collection of short stories Airlift (TCU Press), a non-fiction book Homeland (New Santander Press), and The Nuts-&-Bolts Guide to Writing Your Life Story (The Knowing Press).

Jan lives in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas where she teaches creative and autobiographical writing and is active in environmental work. She and her husband Carl have three grown sons.

The Yin of It
Jan Epton Seale

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ISBN: 1-877603-68-6

Touring a Well-Seasoned Woman

Notice the brow
moves toward translucence,
that the eyes telegraph more, oh
much more now that they have
their radiating lines.

See how the light
plays warm on the cheek,
cool in the cliffside of the neck.

On your right is one breast,
on your left, the other.
These have a history of stories:
sighing babes and oblivious lovers.

Now we come to the belly,
all Greek, convexed in marble.
The hips, we see,
are posing for Rubens.

You will observe how the thighs
have stepped delicately
out of their hair,
how the calves stay faithfully
curved on the road
to their twin intentions,

how the feet tell all time and tide.

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