‘Yarn’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
Summary
Forbidden to touch her hair,
he touches it.
Or does he?
In God's truth I tell you,
the back of my hand
brushed her soft brown curls.
‘“Mine beyond words”’.
Earnest onlookers
may lean over cases
coveting her keepsakes.
‘I have had my thrill for the night.
And a greenstone tiki just doesn't do it for me’.
The poet's sleek words
sound as home-spun as her silken braids.
Oh the tales he tells!
We are spell-bound by
the feel of her hair
in his whispering hands.
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- Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf , pp. 173Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018