Myself at Fifty: An Inventory
Haley, Eileen, Hecate
Myself at Fifty: An Inventory
let us start with the head -- yes of course the head
ever full of fancies
and the hair on the head -- white -- scraggly -- thinning
white early -- never any temptation to dye it
so no worry now about when and how to stop
a subject of conversation -- a source of folklore
the legend of how my grandfather's hair
turned white overnight when he was nineteen
as he rode through the night out Longreach way
to reach a brother dying of snakebite
scraggly always
never a hairdresser who understood its limpness and cowlicks
apart from the Adelaide genius
to whom …
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Publication information:
Article title: Myself at Fifty: An Inventory.
Contributors: Haley, Eileen - Author.
Journal title: Hecate.
Volume: 25.
Issue: 1
Publication date: January 1, 1999.
Page number: 74+.
© 1999 Hecate Press.
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