dg nanouk okpik — In a Lock of Hair
Poetry Unbound
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The Land Is a Body the Land Is Breathing Too
There's four similes in this poem. A wasp nest unravels the gray paper like a head of lettuce and then the next one coming right after that is a bear's heart shines and warms no like frozen fireflies. Two more in quick succession labyrinths and navigational mapping turn upon itself like dragon's tail, left ventricle boils like copper in vats radiation of a lumber sack and coccyx wires drip dip coils inverted cones dug for sifts and wood black peat soil as five red robin's big funnel earthworms in haste in a lock of hair comes from dg nannook ope. We isn't just immediate family it's also other beings
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