She gained ten pounds of muscle the summer she worked in Alaska.
She’d have that slight tone for the rest of her life –
a glimmer when she flexed to stock shelves at Vons the next year or to take a turkey out of the oven or to climb a ladder or to carry her sleeping daughter fifteen years later.
A flashing tight tendril of muscle in her triceps.
Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM UTC
She gained ten pounds of muscle the summer she worked in Alaska.
She’d have that slight tone for the rest of her life –
a glimmer when she flexed to stock shelves at Vons the next year or to take a turkey out of the oven or to climb a ladder or to carry her sleeping daughter fifteen years later.
A flashing tight tendril of muscle in her triceps.
