{"id":2752,"date":"2015-02-16T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2015-02-16T01:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:20:15","slug":"enough-tricia-mccallum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/enough-tricia-mccallum\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough by Tricia McCallum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sunset\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

Enough<\/h1>\n

by Tricia McCallum<\/p>\n

A barbecue and swim after work had brought us together
\naround the campfire that summer evening,
\nAn impromptu thing teenagers do best:
\nYou bring the beer. I\u2019ll bring the chips.<\/p>\n

I watched her run up from the water laughing.
\nAs I write this her name comes back to me: Yvonne.
\nFresh from her swim she stood close to the fire
\nin her tiny yellow bikini
\ndrying her waist-length sheet of onyx-colored hair with a towel.<\/p>\n

She seemed so utterly assured of herself in the task at hand,
\nso composed for a young girl,
\ntossing her head languidly from side to side
\nthen taking a large hounds tooth comb and slowly pulling it through
\nthat glorious hair of hers.<\/p>\n

She must have known we all followed her every move,
\ncouldn\u2019t help but know it by the silence
\nthat had enveloped her ritual,
\nthe flames casting an unreal glow on that hair,
\nthat perfect form and face.<\/p>\n

The men particularly stared in awe
\nat this goddess from Okinawa who\u2019d ended up
\nin our backwater of all places,
\nin their midst.<\/p>\n

I watched the men\u2019s faces watching her
\nthat night,
\nknowing even at 16 I would never possess the audacity
\nthat was Miss Yvonne Tsubone\u2019s that night,
\nand for as long as it lasted,
\nthat which comes from sheer and absolute physical beauty,
\na calling card that says,
\nwithout words:
\nI am perfect just as I am:
\nwhat I am is
\nenough.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Tricia McCallum, a Glasgow-born Canadian, is an award-winning writer and poet and prolific Huffington Post Blogger. She is the author of two books of poetry: The Music of Leaving published in September 2014 by Toronto\u2019s Demeter Press, and Nothing Gold Can Stay: A Mother and Father Remembered (2011)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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