Joy Reid.

Is 35 years old and lives on a property in Gippsland which borders on the Mullungdung state forest in Victoria, Australia. She can be reached at jreid@staggs.schnet.edu.au.

Lemons

I don't have a cleavage.

If I stuff my boobs

in a push-up bra

all I achieve

is a rising dough effect.

My breasts have veined with time.

Shy tendrils have

eased across my flesh

and gravity has created

a bean bag consequence.

I remember reading

of a young girl's breasts,

the writer (a male)

likened them to lemons,

the kind (I guess)

with teated ends.

No doubt he saw them

thrusting, impatient

with poking nipples permanently erect.

All I saw was thick rinded yellow

while my mouth filled

with a bitter after taste.

Joy Reid