I Stand Bare
Megan McCarter
Emergence | Sarah Lane Davidson | Photography
i stand bare and bare my teeth
Exposed
a smiling, grinning, grimace of fangs
barren of emotion, but not emotionless
i bear my heart on my sleeve
not like teeth but like an organ
Exposed
emotionless or emotion filled
a beating sack of blood, a pump or
a raging core of what it means to be
Human
Exposed
to the crows that would lay us bare
with emotive pecking beaks or
emotionless tearing claws
until who can bear to be
Exposed