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Like it, a lot. The rhythm is just awesome.

Nice. Almost like the Billy Joel song, "We Didn't Start the Fire."

I think the ending was the best part:

That the work can still stay**
. . .Listering leaves
The milliner weaves
In a herringbone page boy cap
For a coy toddler's toy bear's nap.

The specificity of this is good, and it prompts me to go ahead with an idea I had last night. By the bye, I read years ago that one characteristic of female writers is their penchant for making lists. Do you think that's true? Maybe it has something to do with our being "detail oriented."

As for writing lists, if I look at a poem that way, it does lend an air of immediacy and obstructs a feeling of monotony from including itself.