Like a bookmark between pages
He slides between my thighs
Picking up right where he left off

The next chapter
A new character
Words drip sweet and foreign onto my breasts
Acidic and penetrating, perforating, corrosive
the membrane between us wears thin

I shrink backwards for cover
Vulnerability caged only by ribs
I lie looking for a wool to pull over your eyes
Looking to escape your knowing
He begins to read aloud, confidently

Here lies inside-out girl
Heart exposed, flesh rent and mended

She learned from the bookbinder when he said
To strengthen the spine it is cut and glued and bound
Cut and glued and bound

The bookmark is shifted
In the middle now my spine cracks
Legs spread wide like book covers
He flips through my pages
Wildly devouring content
Pulling thoughts from binding
I lie loose leafed and scattered

I wanted him to weep at the beauty of my composition
I found instead he wrote a passage

Here lies inside-out girl
caveat lector