Skin

Somewhere
between exposure and pleasure, brutality
on patios, deep-fried
of garlic and cayenne,

your anointed flesh, slippery
silver at noon, feels
the blowtorch, sparks and fire, our

skin tastes of tequila, with
no bondage
to the demons of winter, as we
marinate in Hell

Charles Brittain Fleming

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