across flesh

"across flesh" was inspired by this quote...

"The air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it."
-Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

my story is written
across flesh...
varicose children
rosacea judgements of perfection
oven kisses
steel string callouses, faded
and earth-hardened soles...

absorbed from the wind
from words and heartbeats
to seep out like garlic
across flesh
sloughed and renewed
my story is still
being written

©Erin Croley
(from a #fieryverse Twitter prompt)