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I have very long hair that sometimes looks lighter in sunlight
she took a group of it from halfway down and with both hands, twisted it, threaded the spool
wound and wound
it was taut, tension equation, taught, homonym,
and even in the closed room with halogen,
condusive.

I could see Mary with her long dark brown hair
a little crinkly, like a washboard road, rill erosion
in the sand-colored grass the woman pulling my hair
is responsible for
(she thought it was pretty before)

like she knew she was being watched, Mary turned around,
her feet crossed over themselves in a happy pattern
on the short grass, underneath which I saw the other millions of feet
voles and ants,
to each of her footprints.

My hair is not very long at all
and I want to make the grass grow
foot to foot, upside down, follow her footsteps, Mary's feet
pad against pad
from under the soil
where I live now.

and anyway
I really like curls.