
| Domestic She unravelled his skin, creased
the butts of her fingerscarefully, letting the canvass fall to
the floor in cascading rolls;set about untwining the ligaments, biting
the fat back with her nails.She slipped his biceps in a box, slopped
the buttocks in a suitcase,clawed the brain, dropped it into
the grey toilet with a plop,only his blood-stitched heart left, she
set about searching for tweezers, excuses, complaints. Daniel Sluman If you've any comments to make about this poem, Daniel Sluman would be pleased to hear them. |