Rabbit Four Ways
I You ate her first at a farmhouse in Conshohocken unplanned meeting but you said the dahlias on the porch were so pink II I know only one saying about rabbits There is another in Spanish— cuando todos se hierve, te pueden dar gato por liebre you held my tongue when I tried to learn it— it won't sound right in English or in me III If the thigh juice runs clear If she's dressed and opened a neat mound for you to hold in your mouth If the femur a tulip stem is easily rolled between the molars and split IV On Longfellow Bridge a white sedan hit her and left her blood a lick against the asphalt Only you were there to pick her up and place her in the grass legs kicking to feel the eggshells of her shoulders to twist her like a handle
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