Woman nowadays

I make women like this nowadays

Aurora is her name
strands apart
Morning break

Brandishing a brush
Axe held high
Chop would to wood
Krona into pennies

I make women like this nowadays
Native strengths

Scalping barbarity
wherever it turns,
eager to build crosswords,
deeply ingrained in
every hammer that
nails another lie.

Forthright.

I make women like this nowadays

Axe is light
Metal resounds

(Neat stacks
Of split wood
Taming trees.)

I make women like this nowadays
Notching
Combing
Owing
Groping
Night and day
Inscribed along the way
Tending to a backlog
Of unfinished blows.

Acrostic in homage to "The Vane Sisters".