To Divulge or Conceal Some Small Parts of the Self

a needle-eye, the bulbous oviform

of seed pod,
the pinched quill tip

incessant, small, fever orchids
stretch into swollen wool

squeezing through a body small

& ruched into
the aforementioned furrow

wrought a puckered
& crucibled sew
of muslin wraiths

closely
fitted to breasts,

smoothly lined

by wasteland organza;
the miasmic burst of sun, intensified

dried roses
& time fickled

by formless water-ink
by links of linen slunk

about the hips

to lips; the taste of determinable

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