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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