Skin and Glass

Spun glass skin
So fragile
Transparent
Porous
Splintered with holes

My brittle body
A broken figurine
Of stained glass
Shelved 
In the back closet

Years pass
Skin turns to paper
Bones to dust
Blackened 
Abandoned, alone




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