- after-bathing beauty
took a bathtoday first time sincecan’t recallmirror nakedtits migrating south oh wellglobal warming sigh
the belly poochrising atlantisrecalled fromthe depths stillflesh rosy and invitingenough to tempt yes
no longervenus more likelydemeterharvest ofwelcome succulence for anaging dry-mouthed god [End Page 23]
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in Uno: A Poetry Anthology (2002), New York City Haiku (2017), Cowboys & Cocktails (2019), Nature In The Now (2019), in print in 2River, Adelaide, Genre Urban Arts, Gravitas, In Parentheses, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Reality Break Press, Southword, Variant Literature among others and appears in numerous online literary journals.