amy schumer follows me around the bar asking how i got my hair so curly like that
simone person
a lifetime of being twisted bent around soldered off each corkscrew an aching tether to the women before me lost across the seas a reminder that our footprints don’t start here my hair took a long time to love as a girl i’d wet it drown it in whitegirl mousse begged my scalp to flatten act right calm down go slow be anything else besides mine for just a minute but on weekends at granny’s house she’d thumb over every curl & hold me as tender as my head
vol. 01
summer 2021
A ¾ portrait of a Black queer femme with dramatic brows, sharp winged eyeliner, dark red lipstick and honey comb earrings. They have their head tilted slightly back and are looking directly into the camera. She is wearing a black scoop neck long sleeve top with small yellow starbursts all over.
about the artist
Simone Person (they/she) is a Black queer femme and two-time Pink Door Writing Retreat fellow. They are the author of Dislocate, the prose winner of the 2017 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest, and Smoke Girl, the poetry winner of the 2018 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest. Simone grew up in small Michigan towns and Toledo, Ohio. She can be found at simoneperson.com and on Twitter and Instagram at @princxporkchop.