AmLit Spring 2008

Page 9

Calorie, a Skinny Ode

Running a Bath

By Tha誰s H. Miller

By Rachel Webb

Octagonal pink embryo,

She rhythmically plucks the knobby bronze pins

you round me

From the rope of soft, gossamer hazel,

(stomach, ass, thighs)

as her hair unfurls down her milky, arched expanse

to orange Jupiter,

framed by shoulder blades.

you humidify anorexia, you clean the plate, hugging

Before turning around

Calcium, Iron, Vitamins on an

and brushing her palm across the fogged face

E. Coli treadmill. My

of the cabinet mirror, edges dotted with painted daisies,

trapezoidal urban legend, you consummate

that has been peeking at the cream curve of her spine through the steam.

challah, wafers, and wine meeting God and kitchen parents filling the hunger never filled. Consuming your fumes of burning lard; I POP your pulp of pure lubricant.

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Tart

Hollins Street I

By Kelly Barrett

By Merquit Garcia 15


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