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Silver Scabs, Cree Anthony Vitti
Silver Scabs, Cree Anthony Vitti
Senior Projects Spring 2021
The eyes stay closed for a long time. oils, my leftover scraps, drops of saliva and grit forming a shell, eyelashes sealing to my lids.
Fingertips, friction ridges vibrating, wanting. I am trying to touch everything, touch myself, I touch another. I lie, pressing hard and soft, things feel the same. they smell different. They spoil, fresh to rot and back again. They taste so different but are the same, different only in response.
I lick my lips and the spit dries on the corners of my mouth.
My cleft palate all sewed up. Precious little threads holding it together, …