The Wonder Women I Know

The wonder women I know don't look like Wonder Woman. Some have eyebags, and some have cankles. Some wear their pajamas to Wal-Mart, with their hair a mess and unconditioned - they didn't have time to shower that morning. Some have a crooked tooth or two because they bought birthday and Christmas presents, food and shoes and braces for their children instead of dentists for themselves. Some have faces hollow from grief, gray hair at thirty-three, like ghost tails in dark brunette ether. Some won't deign to call them "Proverbs 31 women" because they cuss and smoke. They don't look like Hollywood's Wonder Woman, but they're heroes who do wonders.
They're the most beautiful women I've ever seen.