Flawed Jacki I
Souza
touch
your skinthe hairs
on your jawline
that
my hand-
prickle
the curving fullness of your
bottom This
lip.
is all
before
you
will let
me
find the long-healed scar that
still
hurts.
You stop me because you want
to hide
your pain your past
my blindness.
behind But I
I
see
with
think you
you more
know clearly
my blank eyes
than anyone else ever has.
You
are flawed
but it is all
see
my fingers find too much-
right
because
I
am
flawed, too.
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