Lucy Alexander # 79 Dog Smells Fear (for KK)

All these busting scents

vibration odour

sour crinkled shoe

plant stem polish

red water smear

tang greasy sweet tooth

garden puddle drag

chicken shit low white

waiting, waiting, here

you come all breath

burnt toast and tooth rot

notes of raspberry

leather of your palms

frayed skin of fingers

bite down fear

this blood-close-to-skin

sweat oozing honeyed

armpit groin tangle

from head – sebum of hair

to toe – jam sour dust cracks

deodorant even stinks.