"What I mean when I say you haven’t done anything wrong": a poem

"What I mean when I say you haven’t done anything wrong": a poem

For a quarter-century, I have

stitched patches of you

onto my skin.

See these silver-darned palms,

heirloom lace ankles,

the raised thread along

my leather soul.

This tapestry

is never finished… 

your hessian is always

on my sleeve.

 

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