The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Sixth Annual Collection

In addition to being a writer of fiction, Steve Rasnic Tem is a poet whose work has appeared in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing Stories, The Bennington Review, Puerto del Sol, and in the anthologies Dragons of Light and Blood Is Not Enough. This short poem first appeared in Psychos: An Anthology of Psychological Horror in Verse.

“Skin” is one of a series of approximately eighty poems Tem is writing about different parts of the body.

—E.D.