Undressing

First published in Obsessed With Pipework: highwire poetry, Issue 16, Autumn 2001. (published under the pen name ‘Ilina Sen’)

Undressing

I ripped them off
one at a time,
painfully,
layer after layer
of identities
woven into the fabric of my being
since birth.
And each time I thought
I had stripped to the core
there was always one more.
When will I be done?
I ache
to stand naked in the sun.

Here it is online....