About the Author The Woman Wrestler is from a collection of poems title Voyeur by Rich Murphy on the subject of love in the wasteland, poems exploring love: lust, romance, and compassion. His Poems have appeared in such journals as Rolling Stone, Poetry Magazine, Grand Street, New Letters, Confrontation Magazine, Negative Capability, Vermont Literary Magazine, Slant Journal, Seattle Review, International Poetry Review, Montserrat Review, Connecticut Poetry Review, Icarus, Natural Bridge, Alligator Juniper, New Delta Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.

She uses her body to steal
men's wallets and revive their dead
emotions. She'd tell a judge that she
performs a kind of CPR

and collects a fee for the service.
A childhood pout drew boys
from whom to choose and later curves
caused testosterone that then lost

control of the age of wheels.
Her presence became the tool
that almost evened the score she had
with uncles, brother, father. In marriages

men are men and busier than golf,
and tennis is the intimacy of women.
She becomes a wrinkled vault with gold
and jewels oozing out from around

its door, and any man who isn't enraged
at himself and vacationing with an intern,
remains a boy showing off to his dad.