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