[De]composition                             “Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?” - D. Haraway (quoted in Corinne Lee)       Desire distilled. Silenced. Atrophous. Desire hung upon anorexic memories, once plump. Now nervous and lonely.   This isn’t what we dreamed of.     Desire to touch – illicit. Boundaries of pale epidermis. Yours: here. Mine: only a foot away. Immiscible membranes.   How did we become mutually exclusive?     Idiosyncratic defensiveness. Don’t move closer. Psychosomatic response: weathered Hope. Thermodynamics:                                                 Please just hold me, we’ll make it through…       - Stacy Kirpichova