The right dose
of thigh high subversion
borrows from past and place.
I try to make it abstract.
The work of human hands,
and dreams become reality.
Confident woman
(global chameleon)
of the true north–
–haute couture.
Consider the ground
held on an icy winter:
fiery candles and stone ruins
plunged into ancient culture.
I have seen true Vogue
inspired by an elevator.
She started an affair with
a license to imagine.
©C.L. Quigley, 2018
First appeared in Found Poetry Review’s “PoMoSco,” a collective April 2015 National Poetry Month challenge
Source text: Menkes, Suzy. “Time Traveler.” Condé Nast Traveler 1 Mar. 2015.
Well written.