skin

skin, like words. skin, like words. (like conversation and soft-touch fingers) like straight-line gs and stencil-letters, looking up my name in the encyclopedia, like stale tears. tears, like skin. (like torn pages of books and pinholes in the wall, licking flames of firelight) too many words and the candlelight. skin, like moonlight. like soft pale glow, like fingers moving hesitantly, like the first touch, like it will be okay.