Celebrity
Lips part and we see the dark
whole of your mouth, empty
and ivory framed.
Vacant-sign eyes , cogs lie static
behind your sugar skull.
Yet we try like children
on a pier, to hook a prize
with our claws.
Stripping flesh from your bones
we pin it to ourselves, sew
your nerves to our sleeves.
Hunt your scent then mask
our bodies with it.
Claire Walker‘s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various print and online publications including Ink Sweat and Tears, Hearing Voices, Kumquat Poetry and Emerge Literary Journal. In June 2013 she won third place in the 2013/2014 Worcestershire Poet Laureate Competition.