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Salmon Skin

Salmon Skin

I want to go into the sun and have scales // That rainbow into water's light.

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Apr 21, 2024
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This poem is about the self and the protection of the self. It treads the line between isolation and protection. It also explores the porosity of the self felt by so many of us. It draws from the visceral salmon skin and plays with light and death - the extremes of living and the self.

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