glass impenetrable
where is the odour
coming from?
a toe nail flickers
the liquid yellows
and thickens
can I break the crystal box?
your toes cry out
untouched, unloved
your sweet smell
grows foul
with decay
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Image ‘free for reuse’ in public domain, by Lai Afong, c1870s, available on Wikimedia Commons.
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