On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Good
On Learning to Dissect Fetal PigsRenée Nicole GoodThis poem was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020.i want back my rocking chairs,solipsist sunsets,& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they…
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