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“that’s from the barbed wire” 2010 Janet Kuypers (poetry converted to prose)     she had skin of silk: smooth and strong, beautiful to touch. with silk around you, you always get warm, feel warm: you can’t escape it.     I watched her skin, her silken exterior, and saw occasional rips, small spare tears with little dots of blood tracing the edges.     I had to ask.     and she told me “oh, that’s from the barbed wire”.     and I suddenly internally panicked: what did they do to her? how did they hurt her? ...or was she trying to escape their potential torture?     how could they destroy this silken beauty, how —     then I wondered where the barbed wire was. I wondered where the torture was.     and then I wondered if the barbed wire was inside her trying to tear her silk trying to break its way out. Also look for thie writing in the poetry section of the Janet Kuypers poetry vaults, to see this writing with different line breaks. Copyright © 2010 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.