dragons aren’t lavender

I wear peel-off nail polish
        (to forgo gloves in August)
and when my fingertips molt
I pray their scales will congeal
into a great glittering dragon
that’ll kidnap the maiden
from my mind

• https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/9knmk7/bright_red_dot/e72xhbj/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/9klhak/biography_of_blue/e71pd84/