Twenty Times

Specks, tiny flakes of toenail

Polish the icy metal

Rings with a hollow sound of a period

Of lashes on skin

Color of holes

In concentration

Lines on corduroy

Embrace

Hips like commas

String in poems

Sweaty with speech

Smeared by lipstick. 

Lyndsey Kelly Weiner is a junior at Georgetown University majoring in English. She is from Syracuse, New York (where we drink more coffee per capita than any other US city).