SPOTS AND SCARS

  We all have stripes and spots

  like prowling jungle cats,

  folds and crinkles

  like memoir pages.

  She may hide hers

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  in the wash of careful

  body colors and paints.

  He may cover his

  with the smooth

  folds of cotton and

  rich buttons.

  But the tigers don’t

  devour their stripes

  and the pages mean

  nothing bare.

  Some stories are etched

  in wrinkle and scar.