SKINS

In the shower this morning
I brushed by the goosebumps
on my right thigh with my hand.
The taut pricks of skin
making each hair stand straight up
made me want to feel your goosebumps,
and your relaxed skin too,
and the skin that you have shaved,
and the skin you haven’t shaved
with its soft curls,
and the super soft and special skin
that almost feels polished and shiny,
and the folded skin
comprising your
smiling eye wrinkles,
and the thin skin
on the top of your head
that’s hard to really feel
because of all your luxuriant hair,
and the tiger stripe skin
on your sides that reveals
you have tectonic plates
(I know you get self-conscious
But the fault-lines feel
topographically spectacular),
and that edgy skin you have
in special
usually concealed
places
that’s harder yet
more sensitive somehow,
and that sodden skin you have
if you can call it skin
inside your cheeks
and other spots.
 
 
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