Soft is hard
to come by.
If ever my skin
becomes so brittle and cracked
that a match can be sparked
against me, you must know
it is the howling
wind in this rough place
we call home
that made it so. And
if ever my skin mends, I will know
it must have been
your soft touch, your
soft-spokenness.
From Dover, New Jersey, Jeremy Pulmano is currently a junior studying Computer Science at Princeton University. After graduation, he plans on becoming a software engineer and poet. His most recent work has appeared in Arch & Arrow Literary Magazine.
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