Tuesday, April 16, 2019

National Poetry Writing Month Sixteen

Prompt

Hair Clips: varieties and uses

skinny silver alligator like
separating strands from toothpaste foam
     desensitizing first water sipped
     chilly morning glass opening throat

double-prong arms out
holding fast a curl
     until it dries waves
     snaking along face

puny black shark teeth look
lifting locks off pillow
     too fragile for feathers
     crushed by heavy dreaming

wide clip edged on scalp
freeing roots of weight
     that inherited
     that dyed and straightened

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