She was nineteen years old
When she saw her first man
Turned inside out
So that she could not tell
Where his body ended
And the dark stained mud began
Then the next man
And the next
The way their wives
Would never see them
And the way her husbands
Would all seem
#NaPoWriMo 2014 poem number 25
© Brendan Bonsack
April 2014