Skin
Skin bears a geography of time.
It softens and furrows.
I’d not realised, of course:
I hadn’t been looking.
Around the eyes first,
then the cheeks,
the upper lip –
a contour map,
a bloom of notches.
And then there,
in the hospital
recovery room,
that unutterably
untouched face,
new skin,
another geography
waiting to happen.
Image: Marina Shideroff; text: Tom Phillips
Skin
Skin bears a geography of time.
It softens and furrows.
I’d not realised, of course:
I hadn’t been looking.
Around the eyes first,
then the cheeks,
the upper…
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