HedwigStrange

I found this little snippet of an unfinished poem while packing to move houses. I felt it captured a part of how women perceive the world. It is very feminine. Not sugary and pink, but sort of relating to the way I think so many girls feel about their hair and clothes, how important they are in our sensory perception of the world, and how aware we are of them and the effects they have on our moods.



Bind my hair with new-cut wheat
Braid my long and heavy locks
Intricately tie these sheaves
And so keep their fragrance sweet

Pull tight the deep green velvet dress
Let its heavy forest rest
Upon the fair land of my skin
And let me feel the corset's press.