Earthly Psoriasis

• Ella Girdler, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2016

Skin, a ruddy canvas
cracked and peeling silvery, metallic scales
flaked off, dislodged and drifted to the sheets
as she trembled, quaked.
The dermatologists saw it
a rash: fast spreading, oh, oh so irritating
had a label, had an ointment
a comforting selection of meaningless words.
Though did not see in their cauterised suburb of specialisation
the other dimension, the height
each flake studded with grey spires
spearing the underbelly of Heaven.

Others might call it
Urbanisation.