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Saint Chemo's Fire - Specimens 1 and 2
Sarcomas hatch like caviar
in St. Jude chemo-fire inversions,
where leviathans lay magnetars
to suck the blood of
virgins.

Their celestial suckers nurse their mothers
through quantum-dot tunnels, converging
what little life force
might milk
metastatic roots while purging,

and scute steroids discarding the hair
that ganoid scales like
sturgeon
merging baby dragon parts there
in alternative medicine oceans.

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© Ray Ortiz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: specimens, art, cancer, child, dark,
Form: Shape
Reflections On a Collection of Pickled Specimens
Men of affairs, scientists, gentlemen collectors,
researchers, technicians, plankton detectors.
Ladies, when permitted, provided manful help
Wading shorelines intrepidly for variegated kelp.

Be-whiskered men off charted shores 
their Science to be applied. 
From blindest depths defy stern jaws 
to reveal a great divide. 
Thus predate all faith - shift...

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Categories: specimens, allegory, animals, faith, history,
Form:
Premium Member Specimens
Specimens

A Large Fluffy Skunk
With A Fluffy Extra
Two-Thirds Of A
Developing Clone…

Charmed And Excited
Feasting On Random
Squirrel Food
Left Out At
Midnight.

I Don’t Know
Where Their Home Is,
How They Stay So
Fluffy And Healthy
With That …
Deserved
Reputation.

Please Don't Incarcerate
Them To Save Them.
Please.

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A Resourceful TowHee
Size Of A Robin, 
With Her Own
Three Quarter Clone…

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Categories: specimens, life,
Form: Free verse

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