The back a separate body

unfamiliar to the face

ceremony of mirrors

to find its graceful lace.

 

Winged arches with a piston

grip, momentous to the eye,

a notch of bone dressed buttons

trace a finger down the line

 

to the kite of spine's skin corsetry

and curves that cave behind.

 

This that breath cannot erase

is yours and all yours to fly.