Three Women Walking, by Sanda Moore Coleman

Thee Women Walking (Tres Mujeres Caminando), sculpture by Francisco Zuniga (Costa Rica, b. Mexico) 1981. Photograph by Aimee Dars Ellis (USA) 2008. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Three Women Walking

Why should I wait to talk to you, old women?
I am on my way to possibility.

I remember what it was to feel like the spring
in a tiger's paws. See how confident she is!

I don't waste my time with her; she never listens.
Listen, I could save you from so much. But only if you ask.

The conversation never changes; only the faces:
goddesses given to time.

Sanda Moore Coleman
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​Sanda Moore Coleman has been a writer and editor for more than 25 years, and a lifelong lover of art. She currently writes and voices theatre commentary for her local NPR radio station, KMUW, in Wichita, KS.