BeautyUnmasked

Paintbrush vials striping sunlight from the window liquid neck, swollen body pale and rounded loose pill seeds spill like snow. Fingers tracing skin into velvet violet phosphate bruises the colour of a fig The dark hollow crooks of oxide eyes shadow cheekbones standing rapt to attention like silver tin soldiers. Fugitive exposed in artificial lights shrinking strangely, belly full of secrets in the disquiet, tongue romancing the edge of an unreliable knife. She is made from earth, rotted organic soul and lungs filled with loam funeral urn in her mouth, holding the softened embalmed heart turning to paint a dark reddish brown. Stretched naked