I dug an animal trap beneath my eye.
I grew a stain of leaf-mould to cover it
And hide the work of necrotising insects.
At the corners of the horizon
Oil-winged predators slip from my view
Leaving the smell of burnt fish-skins
And the taste of charcoal.
The soft rotting pops in my ears
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