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The Beauty Of Your Hair

A Homage

Unfurling tresses of freedom,
the freedom of tearing down, tearing off, tearing up.
Shaking off the yoke of patriarchal power,
as well as the oppression of the other colour.

A call to the wind to caress with its breath
and only its breath, and only gently,
the coif upon your heads and loosen those other…