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M.J. Smith

Scaling

Disks of icy transparence click
on the countertop like poker chips;
I drag knife blade backwards
scaling blue-green stripes behind gills;

Odor of deep green muck rises
as thin watery blood runs down tiles,
pools at sinkbottom and drains
in a thin line that says “sh-ch-sh-ch.”

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