watch as nylon skins peel together
dermis growing pine-scent gills in angry pink,
alliterate, curl your toes and
touch the place between tendons and bones,
ulnar notches and
rivers of blood (without hemoglobin, aquamarine)
you can feel your blood pressure in your hands
one-twenty pm over eighty degrees fahrenheit,
and I can't fathom how much it hurts
to grind your bones.