An Inner Skin

Pahn is on the owner’s mountain

where the owner is building

Pahn walks through gravel

and sand dodging around

excavators looking for something 

He sees through a locked gate

a grove      

(he has been longing for a certain pine) 

He slips into the wild land     down

through the meadow      toward

the grove                      but before he reaches it

the manager sends his dogs out to stop him 

Pahn is not afraid of the dogs     and

puts out his arm for them to chew on 

They bite

him in a friendly and affectionate manner 

The manager comes down to him

and Pahn tells him about the tree that he desires       saying

he only wants a very small one

small enough to transplant

with just a shovel      and the manager

nods  smiling    and Pahn knows he will have to try again later

As they walk back       Pahn sees

many small and beautiful

pines and false hemlocks that have come into the meadow

and many more beneath the groves that border it      and

to the south there is a steep     and rocky hill     and

in its shade he finds a true fir

young and healthy

and he runs his hands through her soft needles

…

Pahn is in his parent’s house with Ahnaheeta

in the bedroom where he slept

holding her legs apart

                               and sliding into her

When she gasps

and relaxes

he turns her over     and

pulls her onto him again      and

         again     easily for she is small and light 

Her head is lost turning                                     

     in the pillow     and her dark hair swings

up her sloping back      as he feels

himself moving in

     and out of her soggy vagina       she begins

to disappear from his view      first                                        

      her head and shoulders                                                          

      and then her back           In a moment

       she has become only her genitals

                   to which his testicles have attached         and

finally she is just        

her inner skin             

         which he grips around his penis

                    with his hand 

As he finishes

he hears Ahnjehlia 

(or perhaps Aiks?)     in the hall

and lies back down

pulling up the sheet and

dropping her skin                                                                                    

into the blankets that have sloughed                                            

     off the side of the bed