High Noon @ the Holiday Inn, Omaha
High Noon @ the Holiday Inn, Omaha by Shoshauna Shy
On sale for a song
in the dancewear department
leotards in prim pastels
with matching color-plated snaps
at the crotch
designed for gliding
through aquamarine ponds
or for executing delicate
jetes Not
for plunging feet first
into the outdoor pool
where a troop of 12-year-old boys
are splashing Me thrashing
trying to the nylon not
stretching to Mother laughing so hard she
can barely
hand me
the towel
Note: accent on 2nd “e” in “jetes”
About Shoshauna Shy
Shoshauna Shy’s narrative poetry has recently been published by IthacaLit, Hartskill Review, RHINO, Gulf Stream and Sliver of Stone. Her flash fiction is slated for publication by 100 Word Story, Fiction Southeast, Literary Orphans and Prairie Wolf Press Review.