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Butcher Boy

By Sam Ross @samrawss ·

After “The Butcher Boys” by Jane Alexander.

Beside the other blighted
gods in the waiting room,
pale and creaturely,
+++++++I anticipate.

There is so much
approaching. However
+++++++white I fade or quick
I turn away I was not

mere. These: the tusks,
+++++++cut ropes thrown from
the latch of my jaw.
Here: the trenched

+++++++scar tapering down
my blood-let torso. I opened
brutally, once, and now
am shut, milksop

+++++++god of war.

 

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Sam Ross

Sam Ross’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Bat City Review, Hunger Mountain, and Indiana Review, among other journals. He is co-editor of Circumference, a journal of poetry in translation, and has received fellowships from Columbia University, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

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