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Your body All angles and edges in place of curves Your neck Cinnamon, turmeric and salt Your skin Wheat-dark like pages of a well-worn book Your atlas back Arched like a cello’s waist Your elegant fingers Graze the ivory shell of my ear Your hollow collarbone Perched like a sycamore branch Crawling its way up My pelvis My sternum My throat Until finally hanahaki springs forth From my welcoming lips.
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Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021 at 9:20 AM UTC
Hanahaki Disease
Your body All angles and edges in place of curves Your neck Cinnamon, turmeric and salt Your skin Wheat-dark like pages of a well-worn book Your atlas back Arched like a cello’s waist Your elegant fingers Graze the ivory shell of my ear Your hollow collarbone Perched like a sycamore branch Crawling its way up My pelvis My sternum My throat Until finally hanahaki springs forth From my welcoming lips.
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19/F/Singapore
Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021 at 9:20 AM UTC
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