That's right

This time we want
full body shots of
the heads that have haunted 
the back rows since puberty 

Let's display the longiminous,
spotlight the broad shoulders,
feature the slender legs,
whose owners embarked long ago
on a lifelong expedition in search of
rare, endangered, and 
exorbitant inseams

We've put in our time,
drifting to the back with
automatic complacency;
the class pictures
museum tours
the family reunions
choir risers 

And now,
let the regulars, the petites
strain to peek around us 

Let others argue their case
from the back row

Copyright by Katrin Talbot.
Used with the author's permission.