From Kinky by Erika Meitner
-she describes the present in past tense and then goes to a flash back that she describes in present tense
-she uses words like sandwiched, untamable, unruly, tangled, knotted, corkscrew. Words that could also describe someone's teenage years
-she uses scents to bring her back to different times
-There are many traces of ethnicity like black girls, semitic afro, Jersey Mafioso (Italians?), Jewfro, Hebro
- The entire poem is one long stanza that goes back and forth from present to past, from memory to memory. It moves from here to there kind of like a kinky curl
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