iodine

sponged orange staining the purple and bringing the silver tongue words to relief

seeps into the purple and turns it brown-black ..
      .
  darkened cottonwool dabbing

                        saltstinging pleasantly a hum of unbonding

untangling and massaging
                untightening
                          
                            un doing

reversing time slowly to what end it is unclear but conformity is one reason
                                    undo what is done
                                    reform what broke
and look the same as those that are same beyond skin