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