Willow has the uncanny ability to bring people together. For the last several years she has hosted an annual Willow Manor (online) Ball that is attended by hundreds. This year she started Magpie Tales and is drawing a hundred participants a week.
And she is also an incredible poet. Some people just have it all don't they. Smiles. It is my honor to spotlight Willow today. She chose this from her repertoire to share with us. If you have not graced the halls of Willow Manor, I highly recommend you do so now. ~brian
Uncoiffed
A Poem by Tess Kincaid
A Poem by Tess Kincaid
Aliens would render us useless
if they sucked all our nails
with some powerful magnet,
like a big vacuum sweeping
up bobby pins.
We would be a mess
without our carpet tacks
and gutter spikes,
penny size brads
hammered down with the gusto
and sweat of a nation's brawn.
A rapture of galvanized proportions,
they'd leave the buns and beehives
of our landscape
in disheveled heaps, raped,
uncoiffed bedrooms and barns,
bad hair days scattered
across America.
Tess Kincaid, 2010
