Dress Code by Patricia Wellingham-Jones
The young blonde waitress
flashes her dark eyes,
a warning not to comment.
Over low-hung black jeans
she wears a skimpy black tank top.
It almost conceals a navel ring
and leaves bare her tanned muscular arms
covered from wrist through shoulder
past shoulder blade in back
with tattoos.
Patricia Wellingham-Jones, a former psychology researcher and writer/editor, is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Chapbooks include Don’t Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer (PWJ Publishing) and Hormone Stew (Snark Publishing). She just won the Palabra Productions Chapbook Contest with End-Cycle, poems about caregiving. Her website is www.WellinghamJones.com .
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