Idly twistingtwiningplattingcurling

simply preeningplyingplainingpurling

subtly smoothingserpentiningtwirling

Naive, artless, how was I to know

that these soft tresses

these wavewove cascades

that these blithe patterns were a minor part

of a grand timeless design?

If she had not thus meddled with her hair in the sun

enchantingly . . . .

(as her sisters do before my brothers)

would this world not be a barren

terraine unpopulate?