the two-mile scar

her scar starts/by encircling her left big toe 96 times/in a tight coil/that looks like a pale toe ring

continues as a single line/to the instep/where it makes a logarithmically-spaced double spiral/ultra-dense at its center/where the line retains its unoverlapping singularity/by flanking itself and sparkling back outward/from the center

and the single line continues/with a floor plan of the house she grew up in/placed above the gastrocnemius muscle of her left calf

the line stops at mid-thigh after having become four condors wheeling around her kneecap

at precisely the two-mile point

because she’s out of disposable funds right now/and recreational laser surgery is not cheap

but she will be back for more

because it is (oxymoron alert) all part

of the grand schematic of things