In our shower I peel tape

holding together the edges

of your stomach, terrified

you’ll come undone.

Once free the scar smiles.

Your eyes are boiled eggs.

Unhurried seconds go past

without response to voice or hand.

We all die, I gather,

perhaps amid a simple task,

naked as we arrived, rinsing glue

off a lover’s puckered skin.

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