homecoming*

leaning
on the sink, surrounded
by fuchsia tulle in my cramped,
pepto-bismo-pink-
tiled bathroom

i sponged concealer over
my wrists,
the makeup caking ineffectually inside

the raw, red weals. i

gave it up for a
lost cause, spent the night
hiding
behind
three jangling
silver bracelets




*in my B.A. senior thesis