Skeleton [So after a year undercover wind feels air-]
So after a year undercover wind feels air-
kissed fresh obscene on unmasked skin my face all
eek don’t look at me. The new style of summer’s bare-
lipped & everywhere faces display
eager & flagrant a stampede of
transgressions. Sky-air hits mouth-skin like
orgasmic. Seems they’ll let us live again &
now all over this city the street fever resumes.
From Skeletons by Deborah Landau. Copyright © 2023 by Deborah Landau. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Copper Canyon Press.