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for read write poem prompt #51: peel the onion

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based on the "square dance" form in reading 'round the square
(an example of a "pattern poem")

unraveled, or "peeled" (in verse form):

my outermost layer
reveals little
expression of skins
sunken sub-rim

       the peel below
       who knows
       something more
       ef'n beast

             being at
             the
             ego's din
             nub