THE STRONG SKINS OF MEMORY

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'Your skin is as smooth as
a Man United fan's, my love,'
he said, 'just as smooth
even without the fights.

I don't know how you do it.'
'When we stop worrying
about the bruises we all rise

in the darkness of our skins
and on the outside we appear
ominously smooth'

                         she told him. 'Look,
you don't keep even the
black and blue marks of my kisses.'

© Kristin Dimitrova
© Kristin Dimitrova, translated from bulgarian
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© E-magazine LiterNet, 12.07.2008, № 7 (104)

Other publications:
Kristin Dimitrova. My Life in Squares. Middlesbrough: Smokestack Books, 2010.