I cannot name the needle
that sews my fingernails,
the blinded burble pull
that seems between my teeth.
It is a sentiment, a requirement
that is not desire.
It is a brittle leaf. It crawls
as veins lashed and twisted.
To leave me, it sands. Then with eyes
of ruptured pools, I become oil
filled, hot and beaded.
I cannot call it with
the curve of a fingertip.
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