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The Protection of the Animus by Molly Boyle


Though animal skins
hide smashed skulls, gut-vined fangs
we fix on the fur and the leather
and forget our claws, their paws

or the value in viscera,
how these hearts hump like ours, earth
bleeding back through the body—

peel down that pretty, find
gods in the spleen.
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