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Veronica Castrillón: Some Abundance

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

If I could carve out my own
heart, I think I’d survive it.
What I am now, something
too close to involuntary.

It does not admit me,
doesn’t yield to release
its secrets. It fastened
itself to my self.

I have a mane,
my nostrils flare.
Some kind of remainder:
But I am the human thing.

Some form of animal. My heart
its own peculiar being. If I knew
how to survive my own heart.

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Poetry, Poetry 76, Veronica Castrillón

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