‘Underneath My Clothes I Am Completely Naked’

Latin is
Dead
She said;
Infra ego
Vestis,
In puris
Naturalibus
All
In our skins
Of oil and protein
Tissue soft
Opaque scars
Fine down
Over plucked
Under nourished
Embroidered twisted
Blue threads
Red
At once
Itch
Scratch me

© Lauren McCarthy 2006