The Diamond Line

The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Literary Magazine

ruby skin.

let me crack you open and pick you apart one by one.

let me peel you back and hold your jewels between my lips.

let my tongue stain red
and match the shade
of my fingertips and cheeks.

let me taste the
sweetness and
feel crimson drip down my chin.

and if I bite too hard
or too sudden,

let me savor
the burst.