“Them Gals There”

by Jessica Soady

The creek-width black water

Wallowing around the curve

Over the guttered sand

Three girls

Bathing in the river - laugh and splash

The sounds pitch over

The huge house

Hidden by a hedge

Tall and loose-jointed

Them gals there

Duck naked through the green hedge

Have a boneless bosomy softness

Rendering hard eyed expression

Like a Halloween Spook