Entanglements
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in this interminable summer
our hair has grown like
the tallest of buffalo grass
long, deep-rooted and wild
I admire your ability to grow your hair
You admire my ability
both of our heads seem sprouted and matted
unattended and reaching
the tendrils drop and fall everywhere
into my mouth
into my eyes
I am forced to peer from underneath them
we've become
intertwined,
woven together like an intricate braid
we're the susurration of deep rhythms
and cooing breaths
in this impossible implausible heat
which has enveloped the entire earth
with its smothering and cloying
still our hair-growing continues
our own over--grown tresses
nearly becoming a mattress
a self-made bed
grown from the mows of our cast-off
prodigiously grown hair....
as we lie down
we blithely share late-night murmurings
of dreams of other lives spent
when we were not even a memory to one another...
so...
how could it be
that I knew you before we knew of each other
entanglements
so knotted
the mystical has merged with the every day.
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