American Beauty

Posted in characters by Denise Rafkind on January 5, 2015

That spangled banner,
All the glory,
A spirit so palpable,
The zeal is in the soil,
It’s always here.
Trumpets blare.
Props roar to life.
“All clear.”
A new day, a new mission.
Seeing you brings it all back.
My quiet, ever-beating metaphor.
Your lipstick never smears.
And those legs! Oh, my…
Maneuvers in the cockpit,
Tracing your flight path.
No bogey in these skies.

 

(A note and background about this photo, Pin up girl, Odette, posing at American Power Museum, Long Island, New York.)