(Addresses Self-Harm/Abuse) She'll One Day Forge Beauty - Edit 1

[Wjames]

Six-year-old girls shouldn't
need to place their sadness
between their toes 
and the business end of a hammer,

striking at anguish left 
red hot by bourbon blows and I think the line breaks at the first two lines of this stanza are both a little weak (especially on "and"). I would also cut "hot" after red, "red hot" is somewhat cliche, and the colour red is hot without needing the extra word.
neglect. Their little digits
lack the temperment of anvils, typo on temperament. This is very strong stuff, though.

and while the blacksmith 
keeps a bucket of oil at hand 
to harden his work,
muffled cries do little 

to quench the misery of one
with such limited understanding. I like this: who is the one with limited understanding? 
I cannot comprehend the mind
of a girl so tortured,

or how she could learn
to hang up her hammer 
and forge a life for herself 
so beautiful as yours. I think the ending is a little weak compared to the rest. I like the idea of the person learning to forge a life for them-self, but I think it could be done with more subtlety. 

This is a really powerful poem. I don't like the title, though, it turned me off reading the poem a bit. I've read a bunch of poems about abuse, and a lot of them are angsty drivel (which this poem isn't). Maybe you could have the title help reveal the fact that the person is able to forge their own life?