Wearing a
short dress and sandals,
I step into
the outfitter,
ice axe in
hand,
and ask for
a wrist strap.
The
questions begin immediately:
What do I
want with an ice axe?
Don’t I know
that is a dangerous mountain?
A real
climb? Wouldn’t I rather
be
interested in a nice walk?
My bearded friends
on the other
side of the store
watch for a
while, amused,
before they
amble over to me.
Suddenly,
the wrist strap
is no
problem at all.
Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in
Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T. She is the
author of Porous Land (Spartan Press,
2019). Her poems recently appeared in Red
River Review, Minute Magazine, Nixes Mate Review, The Blue Nib, As It Ought To
Be Magazine, Former People, Thimble Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.
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