Skin Hunger
Sixty days minus touch
starved skin turns to pelt,
dense insensate sheath
blinking in the sun.
Jane Baston is originally from Oxfordshire but is now settled in Scotland. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous places including Stand, Mslexia, Rain Taxi and Lunar Poetry. She has also published essays in Studies in English Literature, Prose Studies and Film and Literature Quarterly.
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