Folding a Paper Doll
Those nerves repair and center out,
their particles the participants
of clotted fluid crosshatching,
partitioned by the spurned partisan lips
of a cut that deeply parts the skin
in a pursing wound.
Papercut, a still and stringent bite,
from a paper doll, manila hide,
is how the slit is worked through cutis,
the handling of a miniature made in folds.
The manner of this healing […]
