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By day she goes about
the weary business of her dreary life:
a housekeeper, bookkeeper, shopper, chef,
   chauffer for two active teens, and 
hostess of her husband’s dinner parties
                                is she.

In the middle of her day    
        she naps,         
for in the night. . . 

when her work-obsessed spouse
              soundly slumbers
and the kids at last     are fast asleep,
she goes into the darkness
                                     of the woods              
behind her house.

The mask of this woman
falls without a sound 
                     to the leaf strewn ground.
She raises her face to the moon.
               In its light, the stripes
                         of a tigress are revealed!
Her legs feel strong and limber.
That ferocious appetite 
                 for something that she stifles
                                                       flees away
as 
                    she
                                       runs.

Among the pines and midst the sounds
       of the woodland’s crepuscular creatures
she runs           and runs           and runs.
She is running after something 
                she cannot put a name to.

She’s a good woman.
She would never use a bar or night club
                                                             as her jungle.

Now -  with her tigress face -
    swift, stealthy, and strong -
            but above all,
                  not beholden to any  body
she is simply       free            to be.

After an hour of running, 
           the mask of the  housewife
is restored.
Then she collapses, exhausted on her  bed,
           where she dreams refreshing dreams -
which are necessary - 
                              for tomorrow
she begins again
                   the weary business
                                               of her dreary life.


10/26/2014; Now used for Skat's A poem you are proud of #3 Poetry Contest
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