"So Masculine" by Claire L. Frankel

So masculine,

I could stare at you all evening.

Rude me -

probably because

I missed seeing you

the past 32 years.

I gave up straight men 

when I was 40

and unaware of bi,

assumed I would live

like a nun.

But here you are inhabiting

both worlds with

all the insight

and tenderness

and kindness

and

Ohhhhhhh……….!

A note from the author:

For more than 40 years, I have supported myself in Information Technology, primarily by designing computer databases.

I have also been writing poetry, since I learned what a poem was and recently started publishing them. My first published poem, ‘Deskbound’ appeared in Oberon Magazine in 2019. My first chapbook, “Working Woman Poetry” was published by the gracious Leah Huete de Maines of  Finishing Line Press in October 2020.

Also during Covid, I published a second chapbook “Plague Year Poetry,”  and one of my Covid poems was included in the on-line journal of the Writer’s Institute of Albany, New York, sponsored by William Kennedy (“Ironweed,” “Legs,” etc.).