When I am young, say seventeen or eighteen by Ann Cuthbert

When I am young, say seventeen or eighteen (after Marilyn Longstaff) When I am young, say seventeen or eighteen, the day will open itself to my face, and the runnels at my mouth will uncrease. Restlessness will not seem out of place - I’ll waft and wander but I’ll know where I am going when I am young. Scars will unpucker under a purple velvet dress which I will buy with savings from a Saturday…