Impressions

All the superlatives that
come readily to mind
in the admiring opinion
of older women regarding
exemplars of the cohorts
that follow them on the
steadily rising plane of
female empowerment
sweetened by femininity
describe this very young woman
before me, though the 
descriptive "very young"
certainly betrays my own
distance from youth. She
is coolly self-confident,
bright and physically, glowingly
lovely, her voice light and
engaged, the consummate
professional. I listen
deliberately beyond the
unmistakable whiff of
condescension bubbling as
an undercurrent of her
expression, impressed.