Self-examining the scars
I was told I was born with wings
but my parents had them
surgically removed
They could not have been my parents
I tell myself some thirty years later
addressing the naked truth in front
of a full length mirror
turning one shoulder in
while straining my neck sideways
turning the other shoulder similarly
straining my neck
the other way
august two thousand twenty-three
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