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Subtraction Flower

by Zaran, Lisa

...o first 
Then there is the limp lolling 
of our hearts from side to side 
the tongue we cut away 
the blind kiss on the backlash of night 
the giving giving giving of skin 

As women 
we blindly wish 
past the climax of passion 
as we vanish into a world of men 
whose ribcages we were scraped from 
Perhaps we are born of seeds 
our essence crawling up the stem 
to feed the bees. 

Perhaps 
every flower you see 
is a woman 
and when 
she's in bloom 
and when she is bloomin...Read more of this...

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