"The careful watch for broken weft—
the fault betrays a wand’ring mind.
The windows frame a cagedness
out of which the thought may fly—"
Read "Offering to the Textile Mill Girls of Lowell, #Massachusetts, 1840", a new #histfic #poem by Kataryna Zharkovna

Sundial Magazine - Offering to the Textile Mill Girls of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1840
The careful watch for broken weft— the fault betrays a wand’ring mind. The windows frame a cagedness out of which the thought may fly— oh, narrowed girlhood! To tame the wooden beast must I! and rue the sameness of the act that with resurgence goes to die; there is no life or death but one— one