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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