Skin

29 Jul 2025 - Samantha Barrett

Later, on the bus back home, she wished she had said:

In cows sometimes they install a thing called a cannula, which is like a porthole opening in the skin to the entrails beneath, and if there was one in me I would let you slip your hand inside me and hold the wet hot dark parts of my body, and perhaps this has already happened.

But that was too much; too much by far.