This is how she looks to you

a storm in her head
like a relinquished river from its dam
like lightning streaking a foreign sky
an ill-fitting flirtatious skirt on a sullen girl
the full-lipped pout of smeared child lips
this is how she looks to you
and a frightened bumble-bee
or a wasp in full vengeance
her full skirt in panic is another swirling storm
a bodice of bones and a skirt of new clouds
a fiercely grown woman
a magic show
this is how she looks to you

~ Rachael Lowe, Brisbane, Australia