[Touch me now]
One day I wake
I walk forward carrying
a narrative carrying an end
a hole ten years deep
and sleep has made for it a lid
fragile thin plastic wrap a skin graft a patch
inside
the hole is dark and full of stars
is dark and full
of scars this body
grows a garden of badly barely healed
feelings
I mean skin I mean
go ahead touch me now
for I am wild
Copyright Credit: Leslie Harrison, "[Touch me now]" from The Book of Endings. Copyright © 2017 by Leslie Harrison. Reprinted by permission of University of Akron Press.
Source: The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press, 2017)