Slight Girl

© 2005 James E. Doud


What else can be said for her but that she was slight. Not narrow, full of bussom and hip, but slight in treatment. This was her lot, given to be just left of the right, not noticed but by the old ones. Her life now positioned, she would be forever given to only half glances, and slight.


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