The Beach— Where You Like to be Barefoot
Aasiyah 2006 (USA)
What's crazy is that—
Sometimes I still wear that dress.
The dress that made you leave.
And I don't feel a single thing.
In fact,
I feel comfortable wearing this dress.
It makes me look and feel beautiful.
It supports my breasts; it's loose.
It's white, and blue, and black.
It has two strings with silver beads on it.
I wear this dress
and it's like nothing ever happened.
Because it happened to me,
not the dress.
I defy the existence of the painful past
with the wearing of this dress
because I never associated any of the abuse
with this mere piece of fabric.
This is my dress.
My grandmother bought it for me.
And it reminds me of the beach
About this poem
A dress— blue, black, and white, with a deep V cut. and two strings. It's short and soft.
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Written on June 15, 2022
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XA XX XAX B XX AX CA XA BX AC X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 149 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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