Steve Davenport Nine Poems and Three Fictions - The Literary ...
Steve Davenport Nine Poems and Three Fictions - The Literary ...
Steve Davenport Nine Poems and Three Fictions - The Literary ...
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steve davenport<br />
Somewhere a shelf of labeled containers<br />
containing formalin <strong>and</strong> bits of flesh.<br />
Somewhere a book waterlogs in a tub<br />
while three-personed cells batter a body.<br />
Aggressive. Invasive. Metastatic.<br />
Somewhere a container labeled right breast<br />
flanked by four others. Lymph node, sentinel<br />
one. Sentinel two. Axillary tail. Breast skin.<br />
Somewhere Overpass Girl bruises, blows, burns.<br />
Somewhere retreats. Somewhere folds in. Somewhere<br />
enthralled, ravished, betrothed.<br />
Good Housekeeping<br />
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