WOUNDS

Flesh.

Cloven flesh, sliced or slit

Sometimes welcoming
Also expelling words
or waste

A wound: unintended damage
An opening: intended
but
no less damaging
the protective shell of skin
effectively broken
the body within
exposed

A knife's wound
Straight (as a blade)
Mocking nature's gentle curves

In an instant
slicing through years of growth
In a second
ending years of life