Violent analysis
Audra Puchalski

Weasel musk can kill a basilisk
if you can catch a weasel
(vicious) and thrust it down
the burrow. Musky weasel
versus basilisk: draw. Both dead.

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Boil the stray cat on your mother's
kitchen stove until the hide peels off
like cling wrap. Pick apart the spleen,
the sinuses, the canines, the supple
and compliant bones.

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Park behind the Best Buy
after close. How you know
if she loves you: you get inside
where answers are. Her moccasins
tangled around the gear shift.

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Find out what a retina looks like.
Locate the kidneys, the small
intestine, the g-spot, the hole
surrounded by telltale dead grass.
The basilisk's den. The basilisk.

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