Sonnet cascade in December 2

thoughts while watching a young and beautiful woman swimmer


The shape of fitness is a stirring sight --
not with a glamorous curvaceousness
but with efficiency, both smooth and tight
so that her movement seems both effortless
and graceful, like a dolphin through the waves
as curling surf cascades upon a shore --
and as I see her swim, my thought behaves
just as it should, admiring nothing more
than reasons for her beauty shown
without performed pretense or self-aware-
ness, moving with a purpose and a tone
of skill that is as if her body bare
was so athletic we'd note not her sex,
but just what lovely expertise reflects.