30 Days of Poetry Challenge: Day 2
Day 2: April 19th 2017
This word was discovered today in The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Locks
Bound head to foot in a coil of my own making
often
flailing against the bars of a cage made of the daily
mundane
sometimes
I pause, breathless
consider
rather than tearing out my nails and beating the bars
til I bleed
if only
by stretching my arm around to the back of my hair
I'll find
a bobby pin, perfectly slim and subtle
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