Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks August 2015 (Collaboration) | Page 33

Stitch and Sinew
Jared Nadin
I want to look inside you
I want to look inside you
past the curtains of hair
to scratch away the layers
past the sheets of skin
to unravel all the stitches
and the streets of blood
to crack open your bones
I want to see the gears turn
dance in your beating heart
dream in your cloudy head
breathe in your quilted lungs
lungs
head
heart
bones
hair
blood
skin
layers
over layers
layered on layers

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