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​What Leo Forgot—a Chrysanthemum of Guts
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pearl
pip and pit tip
pop up orb
orbit prick pin
lung
belly blood scumbling
a chrysanthemum of guts

bone
acid-etch
calcification
so sore sorely
absolutely solute 
altogether downright
wholly profound 

round 
noticeably spoil glory gold
coded anatomy cataloguing 
the deconstruction
reconstruction 
of the anatomy of anatomizing
codification of inventory
needle marks en pointe
this odd anatomy of pitted pin pricks
a network of blood-forks
a chrysanthemum of guts
a network 
of highly-strung pearls
folded

and folded
folded
and folded
four times
folded four times
and folded
folded into pearls
                                    -Wendy McGrath