1

Only seventeen,
swings both ways.
Blond, curly short
cropped hair.
Sings body electric,
hums Madonna.
Taps cigarette
against shoe.

2

She won awards,
courted by peers.
Glorious new life.
Sang songs ringing
in new year’s,
inviting boys to
taste new experience,
tunes of the city.

3

He came to ask
about world of
boys and men.
Bold new hormones,
dancing body electric.
Curiosity humming
tunes with antiphons.

4

She came to close
debate, to whine and
moan, pathetic little
tears, wrenching hands.
Her world no longer
awesome, her body
full of spleen,
her mind tired.
Her hum now a dirge.

5

Seventeen years.
He grows yet, sparks
and electricity shine.
New songs, gifts, worlds,
peoples. Life filled
with awe. Body
celebrated. New film
is now. Camera pan to
scene 3.

© Lewis Bosworth, 2013