Youth and Beauty

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Youth and Beauty

I bought a dishmop⁠—

having no daughter⁠—

for they had twisted

fine ribbons of shining copper

about white twine

and made a tousled head

of it, fastened it

upon a turned ash stick

slender at the neck

straight, tall⁠—

when tied upright

on the brass wallbracket

to be a light for me⁠—

and naked,

as a girl should seem

to her father.