30 Days of Poetry Challenge: Day 2
Day 2: April 19 th 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 to pick the lock to freedom