SUBCUTANEOUS

RINA NK

catch her unsupervised. pulling: an infinite millennia of gauze soaked in blood out of the gash in her
side
time packed in that wound like bodies on ships
and even still,
those strips of cotton festering in bright red stretch even further, catch her
alone. and gazing: at hospital doorways eyes dripping saline solution cause she's hoping that
they don't think she's
malingering