Jane Lunin Perel

SKIN
after Robert Francis

dry wood parch-
ment thinned down
flint splintered
split ties spark
to ash black
blue singed stretched
over bone
antelope
hide and seek
what was sup-
ple is singed
cracked canvas
eroded
gravel burned
velvet some-
where else some-
one else’s

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