#2416 -- all teeth

 

2416

7.223

13.viii.26

all teeth

ekphrastic for Si On’s ‘The Magic of Women and Other Stories’

 

suppose a body

of shattered mirrors

 

so the skull shows branded

        ribs tell

              itch

 

smooth where you see into the wall

 

and so perhaps you too reveal

 

dangle of chains, innids plastic

 

mostly we’re on fire

 

words beaten from a grief

 

or love spew

 

a dysphoric flower

 

lolly, gun, grip

 

the slippers empty now

 

mainly, though, the teeth