Stepmothers and Stepdaughters    by  Lesley Walter

(After David Campbell's 'Mothers and Daughters')

Daughters sit at their fathers' tables,
stare at them with their mothers' cool blue eyes.

They flick back thick cloned hair,
flutter passed-down lashes,

swell from skimpy too-tight tops
and slinky low-cut dresses,

and mock their mid-life stepmothers
with the breasts of once loved wives.

© Lesley Walter