This Exquisite Corpse

collaboration with victoria @ http://www.writerscafe.org/victoriawd !!

Death has ironed out the furrowed brow you always wore

It flatlines past your heavy-set blue eyes

still, as you lay, caught in the ray from a crack of sun

and choking on your swollen tongue, an inchworm

drags dead skin sediment on an underbelly 

then coils in your clavicle   

like a weary sled-dog would do if he thought

he might start your heart again. 

This exquisite corpse