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Eggshell Skin


Eggshell skin

splits open under

doubt.

Wayward bandages crease the wrinkled folds

holding porcelain wrappers

together,

covering fleshy notions of

maybes.

Paper mache

is the thickest thing I know.

The rest seeps water

through crow's-feet-smiles.

Cracks in china.

 

But I have hope.

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