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The world seen through the hole in your ear

by  Souchong

Posted: Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Word Count: 58
Summary: title pretty much says it - flesh tunnel is an object used to gradually enlarge the size of a pierced hole in the ear.




The tunnel through your flesh is wide enough to take a small car, an HGV, a tank,
more than this slim piercing.
I can look right through you
see the world framed with a silver rim
houses, trees, people
the sky a grey flash of light waiting.

Turning, I glimpse your opaque island self.
You give me roses.