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 << Back to Issue 2.2

"When I Look For Your Body, I Find More Than Your Body" by Natasha Kessler 

for RW

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rabbit in red, your fractured sleep
tiptoeing tooth marks across your arm

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a ghost deer on your kitchen table,
eating jimson weed

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nothing more than taxidermy
foxes, dogs barking wet at the tree line, a light in your old cabin

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new wood posts dug into a weathered face,
washed linens, washed beginning

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what tastes like bad,
a sticky cocoon in your back pocket

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chemicals exploding in the secret laboratory,
a hint of teeth, the beaker

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the end of light, your soft hand pressing on this sentence

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You, sleepyhead, in your naked outfit, you are always a mouth, a doorknocker,

the sonic vibration of a hummingbird, a fly wing to wash from my neck every evening, one scale at a time.

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