second skin
honey-flavored,
her love cloying,
too sweet to be savored,
leaving a tainted aftertaste.
once flower-delicate,
now glue-ish --
white stickiness
clinging to him.
in time drying clear --
a second skin.
taking a layer with it
when he peels it away,
no matter how carefully.
--Cassandra Lowery
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Poems by Cassandra Lowery
PoetryVarious poems by Cassandra Lowery, currently including "Tone Deaf?", "second skin," "arms of an angel," and "A Love Poem to a Wren." All poems published here are copyrighted material; please do not reproduce without the express written consent of th...
