Weekly Poem: "Apparent Backward Motion"

Apparent Backward Motion

Mercury’s retrograde

so I shouldn’t get a haircut

until Mid-March.

Mid-March!

It’ll be down to my ass

by then.

First the split end cream,

then the detangling spray,

the wide tooth comb,

then the regular one.

In a battle with my hair,

I comb out tangles,

one by one.

It’s a losing war,

my bangs dip below my nose

as I wait through the storms

for my next haircut.

2/16/14

Prompt:  write a hair poem

© Anne Westlund