Peel Away

She lives
in a land
of layers/she wants
to break 

free from
cumulative
strength. Why
can’t her own 

skin be enough?

Pulling them apart,
flattening
them with an old press,
she wants plains 

and straightaways
to be enough
poetry to land on.

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