“A degloving injury attains more significance in the hand because of the irreplaceable quality of the skin that has been lost, the exposure of the delicate structures in the hand…” [1]

The striations of my flesh

Cling to my skeletal phalanges

Every tendon and ligament

Is exposed like an anatomy lab dissection

I cannot feel much when that colorless liquid

Enters my veins and takes its vertiginous drive

Up to my brain and all I can see is

The wreck on the mountain in

The mud where my blood lingers

And how is it that you no longer

Exist anywhere except in that mud

In my brain and my heart is degloved

Because of the irreplaceable quality of

What has been lost

[1] Krishnamoortty R, Karthikean G. Degloving injuries of the hand. Indian J Plast Surg 2011;44:227–236