It begins: As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.
All the commentary withheld from earlier poems arrives, sharpened by its time inside the mind: As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.
Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster.
Get ready!" I took a gulp of air and dropped below the surface, 12 pounds of lead weights strapped around my wet suit to counter my natural buoyancy.
The fashion line – which included an LED jock strap, a hot-pink mesh shirt with cut-outs at the shoulder, white trousers with the shadow of a black hand at the crotch and a 'butt hoodie' (decorated with an illustration of a bottom) – was seen as provocative, though 'tongue-in-cheek' might have been a better assessment. .
Another four had lead weights strapped to their backs, and the last four chickens were raised untouched.
The sun was going down when she arrived with a trailer and led three strapping 3-year-olds onto the ranch grounds.
"The doctor said to me, 'I could look in your eyes and tell who's really sick,' " said Esperanza Straughter, as she led her strapping 13-year-old son, Tyrell, out of the emergency room after his visit.
A handsome example here is an open-robe English dress of 1795: a long white gown with an overmantle of yellow-and-white-striped satin, which forms a tight band under the bust, then is led by straps to flow back over the shoulders in a long cape.
It needs examination, in the same way that sane people have to understand why a reading of the Koran could lead someone to strap on a suicide bomb.
