My Girl by Donna Hilbert - Your Daily Poem

My Girl
by
Donna Hilbert

She wears her hair undone

my summer girl

goes from nightgown

to bathing suit and back again

cares nothing for exercise

but swims miles across the bay

for fun. Her days are long

like the Russian novels she reads

on the beach. She must be

called indoors to eat.

Everywhere she walks

she leaves a trail of sand.

From The Congress of Luminous Bodies (Aortic Books, 2013).
Used here with the author’s permission.

Donna Hilbert writes and teaches private workshops from her home in Long Beach, California. Her work is widely published in multiple languages and she is featured in the documentary, “Grief Becomes Me: A Love Story.” Her most recent collection is The Congress of Luminous Bodies, from Aortic Books, and she has several poems in The Widow’s Handbook (Kent State University Press). Learn more about Donna at www.donnahilbert.com.

Dorcas:
As long as an impression is left.
Posted 06/09/2015 12:10 PM

barbsteff:
Wonderful use of detail to give us a picture of this girl and her relationship to a parent.
Posted 06/09/2015 11:25 AM

wendy morton:
let us all leave a trail of sand. Lovely.
Posted 06/09/2015 09:39 AM

Supa:
Just beautiful. I can really visualize this girl. I have daughters a& granddaughters and this just made me feel good. I love the ocean, sand & reading.
Posted 06/09/2015 03:03 AM

Katrina:
Sounds as though she has got stamina!
Posted 06/09/2015 02:08 AM

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