Simile of a Smile

In a touch
              that fills like rain

In kindness
  unsaid, but never refrains

In aloneness
  desecrating Time
  converging contentment with end

In hunger
  forbidden, powerless
  stomaching scent after scent

An illness
  cankering your bones from the inside
  imagining pain

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 11:47 PM –
Thursday, April 19, 2012, 12:25 AM
After reading Mary Kinzie's poem "Theine".
Illustration by Anne-Julie Aubry