Beyond the Curtain, by Joanna M. Weston

Young Girl Combing Her Hair, by Auguste Renoir (France). 1894.

Beyond the Curtain

absorbed in the rhythm 
she pulls her comb 
down   reaches up 
pulls down and smoothes 
the red/gold of her hair 

she wants to speak   to sing 
to the movement of her hand 
as she lifts and brings it slowly 
down through the rich silk 
but someone might hear 
stretch one hand 
from beyond the curtains 
and touch her shoulder 

she longs for that touch 
wants him there beside her 
but cannot ask

Joanna M. Weston

​Married; has one cat, multiple spiders, raccoons, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses. Her middle-reader, Frame and The McGuire, published by Tradewind Books 2015; and poetry, A Bedroom of Searchlights, published by Inanna Publications, 2016. Other books listed at her blog: 
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