Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nine
Winter 2005
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Rabbit Skin Glue
Rebecca Loudon

I'd say bandage
in the time it took Gail to parry
her wrists in art school.

What gathers in the corners
of the mouth –
collagen, casein, gold
slick, every surface
burnishable.

She called me the night
they released her,
my shiny girl,
my good girl.

I built a memorial in the museum
of missing limbs,
slabs of meat
vague and bleeding.

This is how rabbits grow quiet,
seized by the ears, red neurons,
all their ripe goodness processed
and boiled.


About Rebecca Loudon

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