My daughter comes out of the ocean
blood running pale and pink
from the barnacle cuts in her feet
she calls them
barnakisses
and doesn’t seem to mind
but I am startled yet again
by how we are packaged
in skin as thin as cling wrap
and I come to the same conclusion
that it’s meant to teach us
that vulnerability
is not our weakness,
it’s our purpose.
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