What I love about women’s sports by Lauren Mantis

What I love about women’s sports

Lauren Mantis

It’s the sweat / the ponytails / the surprise of
acrylic nails / women moving like predators
instead of prey / the endurance / the focus / their
serious faces / only smiling when they’ve achieved
something beautiful / the little girls in the crowd
learning / this is another way a woman’s body can
be celebrated / watching a goal lift a sea of people
to their feet / perpetual motion / kinetic energy
like growth / like hope / like possibility / the
knowledge that failure just means / next week
there is a chance of redemption / always another
opportunity for a win / always loud and lifted
by the cheers of the faithful

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