It's Still Life

A Pluck and Straighten

About those eyebrows drawn thick
and dark, and shaped
liked a gull’s wing.
When I was young,

we plucked them in a shapely line,
gold tip tweezers,
and then drew them
back in again.

We ironed our hair to make it
straight, stuck flowers
behind our ears …
when we were young.

Miz Quickly’s Minute Poem (8.4.4.4×3)