Braids

Thank you so much for all the thoughtful, touching comments. The partitioning IS a challenge.  I thesaurused it, thought on it, and still didn't come up with anything better.  I hoped it would work because we seperate the braids, 'part' hair, and there's a double meaning of my grandmother's partitioning - which isn't really important to the poem, but just is.   Hopefully the right word will pop up from the ethers . . .

I would love to find a way to make the lines or stanza's weave a bit, or have the effect of a braid . . . but couldn't sort that out either!!!