This poem was written for the latest mini-challenge from Read Write Poem — write seven poems about the body in the context of October. I chose “hair” for the theme of my second poem. Enjoy.
-Nicole
P.S. If you want to read everything else I wrote for the mini-challenge, click here.
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My hair betrays me. In the summer, it curls endlessly
on itself, becomes a nest of snakes hallucinating
and searching for prey first in one direction, and then
the other. As the Kundalini of mercury rises
up the thermometer’s thin glass spine, my hair
also rises – and once that quicksilver line
busts the bottom of ninety degrees and explodes out of the neck
in arced silver plumes, the spines of my curls then kink Continue reading
