The ringed nostril
- crimson -
shiver and drop, exhale.

Stained sink,
scarlet stream
snakes pipes.

I'm in the armpit,
the buttcrack of the Earth -
burrowing deeper during my winter months.

I echo in every child's cry.
I shudder in every pervert's glance.

Run ragged, ragged girl,
in every slap of boots on pavement,
every whiff of dying chrysanthemum.

I am the fists beating me to a pulp,
embracing every blow.