walls raw blue
Do Not Touch Me
glued to the stereo
18 month old issues
of Psychology Today
glowering
doors grope loose jeans
for crisp checks and snatch
at clingy parts of sweaters
halfhearted girls with
rabbit teeth and
voices like metal slides
Weren’t we in
Haven’t I seen
gathering brittle bone hair
with piano fingers
a thin elastic slap
the hung head of a pin
I bite my lip to keep it in.
You’re looking great
my nails peel to the wrist
-Arielle Martinez