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“Too Tight”

An image of a sonnet. It reads: Morning: my hair raked into cinched knots, the free strands sprayed by my mother, till crunchy-hard, taut against my skull. My fingers invade, loosening tresses to soothe the achine while rust-coated cows munch grass beyond our van. My mother, rear-view-spotting my messed-up drey, is less than thrilled. The skin between her brows folds like corrugated iron, while hair falls like curling-ribbon over me. How nice it is, I hang my head in the highway air and let wind flutter me like a streamer. I smile at cows: the square mothers, their listless glares.

Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology (Amazon Bestseller), Literary Revelations Press, Ed. Gabriela Maria Milton, January 2023, page 175.

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