HAIR CULTURE
the system
ode to our natural hair
plaited-stack seeks acquittal.
part it down in the middle.
it’s a critical, a spiritual, an anti-political,
yet, political integer,
a historical ligature.
them inquisitors & mimickers & industry limiters
want a slice of its capital,
want a piece of its magical.
catch it perch in discussions & re-emerge in the capitol.
it’s diverse in the brittle,
it’s complex as a riddle,
it’s been caught in the fables, & it’s a prey of the fiddle.
scalp — seborrheic — on chronic
soothes in aloe & tonic
with occasional/phase(nal) micro-bits of bionic.
it’s a flocculent cape,
it’s a snap on the nape,
it’s expressionists’ cleverest of an infinite shape.
it’s the movement of mettle.
it’s a poet unsettled.
it’s a barely-there or long or asymmetrical petal.