Dissection of a Piglet’s Heart
Amy Wortmann (writer), Bethany Cherry (graphics)
<p> right atrium how strange it is. how fragile, wobbling watery yolk in my palm ribs bending between my fingers like pipe cleaners scattering blood onto a sanitized tray right ventricle how strange to imagine its first stirrings, moth wings wedged between slumped lungs, foetal halfthoughts that never grasped the taste of oxygen left atrium […]</p>
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how strange it is. how fragile,
wobbling watery
yolk in my palm
ribs bending between
my fingers like pipe cleaners
scattering blood onto
a sanitized tray
how strange to imagine its first
stirrings, moth wings wedged
between slumped lungs,
foetal halfthoughts that
never grasped
the taste of
oxygen |
what was it?
a cleft between atria,
dented
ventricles,
a concave pericardium
squashed like a soccer ball on wet grass?
what smothered you when
you came into the open air?
did you kick? did you squeal?
or were you
lifeless
like this melting marble of a heart? |
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Figure 1. Dissection of a Piglet’s Heart