Skeleton fingers
Disjointed, pointing
In all directions
Bone skin bandages
In a perpetual
State of peeling
Like curled documents
Still bound
To her living case
Between her smooth
Joints, scarred and ragged,
Is each encoded trajectory,
Sharply outlined in
Brown, naked winter
Her white body
Only softening
In the heaviness
Of sunlit snow.
Pugh is a 38 year-old artist/designer from South Brunswick who enjoys the outdoors, as well as writing, in her spare time.
Call for Fiction: U.S. 1 continues to welcome submissions of previously unpublished short stories, plays, and poetry by Princeton-area writers to appear in print as space permits. Submissions from children are discouraged.
E-mail your work along with a brief biography to fiction@princetoninfo.com, or mail it to U.S. 1 Fiction, 15 Princess Road, Suite K, Lawrenceville 08648.

