She was legs, hips, breasts, and bone.
Same as a cow,
worth less perhaps.
Dredged up words
from the dark well of your mouth,
not ancient, just old.
“Ace”
a hiss,
curled around the syllable.
Careful,
you are wearing history
with no place here.
Tonight’s Quadrille prompt from the bar is the word ‘Ace’. I did a bit of a google search and discovered that in the middle ages, the word ‘ace’ could be used to be ‘of no worth’ or ‘bad luck’.
Carol J Forrester 
The last line of the first stanza really got me. And that “hiss,/curled around the syllable.” Wonderful.
Thank you. The quadrille is always such a great fun to experiment with.
I like it when the research is done; makes the piece both authentic and original.
Thank you Glenn. I do love a bit of research.
Incisive and potent.
Thank you.
You are welcome.
Good take. The first stanza kept me laughing.
Thank you Mary, I’m glad I could make you laugh.
From bovine beauty to hiss curled around an Ace, perfection!
Thank you Beverly.
Oof. Well constructed – there’s a lot more here than 44 words.
Thank you Nora, I’m glad you enjoyed it. An ‘oof’ is always a fantastic response to get to a poem.
geez. the history you dug created a haunting feel for this poem. beautiful!
Thank you. It can be really interesting what you can find just by a single google search.
ah. it’s a treasure trove of data, some good, some bad!
Now that was low! Interesting take on “ace” for sure 🙂
It’s not one I’d come across before so it was fun to play with. Could have been a much longer poem in fact.
Yes, sometimes I feel like a quadrille is a brief introduction…
Excellent. Hints at much, and tells us more than just the words on the page.