she touches her wrist to hot water
like they say to do when one is
testing a baby bottle
they say that is the most
sensitive part of the body
more sensitive than the hands
that travel up
shirts
thighs
necks
a wrist to hit water feels like
a finger to hot water
dull
even though her wrist is pink
she hasn't felt the heat
for a while now
she was burned but felt nothing
maybe she
should go
to
re-
hab
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Pastry
Poetrypastry noun a sweet baked food made of dough It's amazing how something so sweet could crumble so easily For the second time, enter the mind of a girl in her late teens trying to cope with the loss of her identity. (Book 2 of the "Ash" poetry tri...
