Tuesday, January 25, 2022

advancing in years

where is the baby
smoothness
of skin,
the soft petal
like
bottom,
the silky underside,
the velvet
nature of youth.
how did this heel
become
so rough.
the face so cruelly
stitched.
it's troubling
the damage that life
does,
the sun,
the weather.
cold and ice.

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