exfoliate

peel it back
papery
  crisp
    resistant
teary
 
pick
  soft
    burning 
  raw
inexplicable
    purple bruise
  pulsing

poke it
revealing
  me
    mine
what
is kept
   inside

please
let
the ants
   crawl
     over me

     i will bloom
  extravagantly

lustily
        without hesitation.