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Eating Laurices<br />
BETH WILLIAMS<br />
Pope Gregory said it was okay<br />
to eat fetal rabbits during Lent<br />
because their watery wombs<br />
made them fish, not meat<br />
the most delicate food cut<br />
from an unharmed mother<br />
never baptized at birth<br />
like babies in church<br />
I must be a Pisces, as well my sister<br />
who never stopped swimming<br />
she was killed by a doctor’s<br />
rod and reel<br />
strangers say I’ve a smudge<br />
on my forehead<br />
not knowing the ash<br />
is dust from a breeding doe.<br />
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