3

                     5

                    1

                    three scratches

                    limning your soft skin

               back

 

          8 4 5

          the stoic squareness of your stance          and several          curves hiding shyly

 

    2 6 7 0

    streaming          watermark descending          past the point of sullen stop          .

 

5 4 5 3

once the numbers start          to fade away          assimilation          can begin

 

6 0 5 9

how the animal jumps          !          its body blurring          in a calculated break for peace

 

    6 3 7 3

    the skin looks clean until          the lesions           and pockmarks emerge given          new focus

 

          7 2 2 6

          your unnatural blemish          weakly          recalls          your anointed forehead

 

                    8 9 1 6

                    this descent could begin upon          complete clearing of the waiting space

                                but          you could not see the end

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