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Posted on 05/01/2016 by Mymuse13

D among the Consonants

Your quivering carnation flesh resents
the burnt sienna sack in which it’s clothed.
Free yourself from those ashen pigments.
Your body is not chattel to be loathed.

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From Among the Consonants in The Skin of Things

TagsComic, Eros, Light verse

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Morning Wildfire Haze, University Hills, October, 2020

 

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